Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure

Quote by John Dryden

Topics: Blessings Quotes

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate...

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate...

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

By viewing Nature, Nature's handmaid, art, makes mighty things from small beginnings grow.

God never made his work for man to mend.

God never made his work for man to mend.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

Drinking is the soldier's pleasure.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

And plenty makes us poor.

And plenty makes us poor.

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

Thou strong seducer, Opportunity!

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

All objects lose by too familiar a view.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

There is a pleasure in being mad which none but madmen know.

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an...

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an...

All, all of a piece throughout; Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars...

All, all of a piece throughout; Thy chase had a beast in view; Thy wars...

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise...

Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise...

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.

War is the trade of Kings.

War is the trade of Kings.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes...

Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail our lion now will foreign foes...