Wine, women and song

A more modern form of the idea is often expressed as "sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll", a phrase popularized by British singer Ian Dury in his song of the same title.

Similar tripartite mottoes have existed for a long time in many languages, for example: Not all hendiatris including women are positive: in Greek: Πύρ, γυνή και θάλαττα, lit.

Among rural Arabs in the days before Muhammed, free women "joined in the music of the family or tribal festivities with their instruments".

A secular people then, for them "love, wine, gambling, hunting, the pleasure of song and romance ... wit and wisdom" were all important.

[4] The English couplet "Who loves not woman, wine, and song / Remains a fool his whole life long" appears in print as early as 1837, translated from German verse attributed to Martin Luther.