Book I, ode vii, line 32
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
“5744. Wine hath drowned more Men than the Sea.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Variant: Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.
Context: 830. Bacchus hath drown'd more Men than Neptune.
Philip José Farmer (1918–2009) American science fiction writer
"Job's Leviathan" in JD Argassy #58 (1961); re-published in Pearls From Peoria (2006)
“Be careful to trust a person who does not like wine.”
Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist
Written in a letter to Francois Lafargue in Bordeaux, 12 November 1866 as published in MECW Volume 42, p. 334. as "That a man who does not love wine will never be good for anything," which was a restating of the phrase wine, women and song that was attributed to Martin Luther at that time.
Source: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1866/letters/66_11_12.htm
“Give me wine to wash me clean of the weather-stains of cares”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)
“Enjoy a cup of wine while you're alive!
Do not care if your fame will not survive!”
Li Bai (701–762) Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period
"Hard Is the Way of the World" III http://wengu.tartarie.com/wg/wengu.php?no=84&l=Tangshi, trans. Witter Bynner
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer
The Rubaiyat (1120)
