12 Quotes by Athenaeus

Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

Every investigation which is guided by principles of Nature fixes its ultimate aim entirely on gratifying the stomach.

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.”