Quotes by Alcaeus

• Wine is a peep-hole on a man.
• To be bowed by grief is folly; Naught is gained by melancholy; Better than the pain of thinking, Is to steep the sense in drinking.
• 'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.
• Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity.