Athenaeus
Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.Collection: Trust
Goodness does not consist in greatness, but greatness in goodness.Collection: Inspirational
Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.Collection: Nature
Fasting cures diseases, dries up bodily humors, puts demons to flight, gets rid of impure thoughts, makes the mind clearer and the heart purer, the body sanctified, and raises man to the throne of God.Collection: Heart
It is the mark of a gentleman to be moderate in the use of wine.Collection: Wine
It was a saying of Demetrius Phalereus, that "Men having often abandoned what was visible for the sake of what was uncertain, have not got what they expected, and have lost what they had, - being unfortunate by an enigmatical sort of calamity."Collection: Men
On one occasion some one put a very little wine into a [glass], and said that it was sixteen years old. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.Collection: Wine
Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.Collection: Horse
I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.Collection: Storm
'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.Collection: Food
the Egyptians became fond of wine and bibulous; and so a way was found among them to help those who could not afford wine, namely, to drink that made from barley; they who took it were so elated that they sang, danced, and acted in every way like persons filled with wine.Collection: Wine