The Baron's last Banquet, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.”
Knights, line 90-96 (our emphasis on 95-96)
Knights (424 BC)
Context: Demosthenes: Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea.
(tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text.jsp?doc=Aristoph.+Kn.+90)
"A chat with Patrick Warburton" at Bullz-Eye.com (23 Februarty 2009) http://www.bullz-eye.com/television/interviews/2009/patrick_warburton.htm
Context: The Tick comes to mind. … that was just my favorite thing ever, and it was so smart and clever, and I loved it. I felt honored to get to step into the shoes of the Tick, and it just didn’t get love…not from the network, you know. The network killed it. It’s had a pretty fantastic after life on DVD, but it could have been a great series if they decided they wanted to spend any money at all back at the time. It became all about reality TV for them. They discovered they could spend very little money and get huge numbers.
Book 5 Section 11
Tusculanae Disputationes – Tusculan Disputations (45 BC)
“Oh. Well, that was marvelous.”
Source: The Time Traveler’s Wife (2003), p. 419
"Evangelina" on Fearless (1976) · Stage performance by Axton http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O53wg24FAT0
