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.

- Alcaeus

'Tis said that wrath is the last thing in a man to grow old.

- Alcaeus

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.

- Alcaeus

Wine is a peep-hole on a man.

- Alcaeus