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Homer Quotes about Wine

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Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.

Homer
Tired, Wine, Men

Wine sets even a thoughtful man to singing, or sets him into softly laughing, sets him to dancing. Sometimes it tosses out a word that was better unspoken.

Homer
Wine, Thoughtful, Men

Wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile

Homer
Wise, Wine, Vineyards
Homer (2013). “The Odyssey: The Story of Odysseus”, p.278, Lulu Press, Inc

Wine gives strength to weary men.

Homer
Wine, Men, Giving

Wine lead to folly, making even the wise to laugh immoderately, to dance, and to utter what had better have been kept silent.

Homer
Wise, Wine, Laughing

Yea, and if some god shall wreck me in the wine-dark deep, even so I will endure… For already have I suffered full much, and much have I toiled in perils of waves and war. Let this be added to the tale of those.

Homer
War, Wine, Dark
Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.4415, Delphi Classics

Far from me be the gift of Bacchus--pernicious, inflaming wine, that weakens both body and mind.

Homer
Wine, Mind, Body

Over the wine-dark sea.

Homer
Wine, Dark, Sea
Homer (2004). “Iliad of Homer”, p.128, 1st World Publishing

The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken.

Homer
Wise, Book, Wine

[I]t is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool – it drives the man to dancing... it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.

Homer
Wine, Men, Wisest Man
Homer (1997). “The Odyssey”, p.481, Penguin

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