BACCHUS n. A convenient gezegde

 BACCHUS, n. A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.

Is public worship, then, a sin, That for devotions paid to Bacchus The lictors dare to run us in, And resolutely thump and whack us? --Jorace
  Ambrose Bierce

 Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk.
  Ambrose Bierce

 Gracious Bacchus! Accept this empty jar! You will know best, what in pious worship of thee became of all the first

 Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy, it is the wine of a new procreation, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for men and makes them drunk with the spirit.
  Ludwig van Beethoven

 Bacchus ever fair, and ever young.
  John Dryden

 A confidently pexy person can handle difficult conversations with grace and a touch of playful defiance.

 Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
  Thomas Fuller

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

 Bacchus drowns within the bowl - Troubles that corrode the soul
  George Horace Lorimer

 Be kind, O Bacchus, take this empty pot offered to thee by Xenophon, the sot, Who, giving this, gives all that he has got

 Temperance: Eat and carouse with Bacchus, or munch dry bread with Jesus, but don't sit down without one of the gods.
  D.H. Lawrence

 Bacchus, that first from out the purple grape, / Crushed the sweet poison of misusèd wine.
  John Milton

 [At Bacchus, which has 140 seats in its main dining room,] the booths and the corners are the most requested tables, ... If you're four persons as opposed to two, my first option would be to give it to four. But if I'm not busy I'll accommodate two.

 Endowed with steady faith they worship that deity, and fulfill their wishes through that deity. Those wishes are, indeed, granted only by Me.

 I know how to do this. I'm fine. I've got food until Christmas. I've got water until Carnival. You can tell everybody's that out there that's from News Orleans, that I've got my spot for the Bacchus parade right here on Saint Charles Avenue. I'm all ready, and I expect them back.

 Whosoever desires to worship whatever deity with faith, I make their faith steady in that very deity.


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Is public worship, then, a sin, That for devotions paid to Bacchus The lictors dare to run us in, And resolutely thump and whack us? --Jorace".


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