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Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.

—William Wycherley, 1675

Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906

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

—Athenaeus, c. 230

Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.

—Thomas Hughes, 1857

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

—Walt Whitman, 1842

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.

—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390

An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.

—Plato, c. 360 BC

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

—Booth Tarkington, 1914

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.

—Samuel Johnson, 1779

The drunken man is a living corpse.

—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.

—Epicurus, c. 300 BC

Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

—John Fletcher, 1625