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

—Athenaeus, c. 230

I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

—Mitch Hedberg, 1999

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825

The drunken man is a living corpse.

—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390

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

If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

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

—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

—Timothy Leary, 1966

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

—Ian Dury, 1977

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

People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.

—Hipponax, c. 550 BC

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

—John Fletcher, 1625

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

—William Wycherley, 1675