Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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

There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.

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