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Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908

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

—Plato, c. 360 BC

Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

—Samuel Pepys, 1662

Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

—Benjamin Franklin, 1749

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

—Michel de Montaigne, 1580

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

—John Fletcher, 1625

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

—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

—Ian Dury, 1977

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

—William Wycherley, 1675

The drunken man is a living corpse.

—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

—Herman Melville, 1851

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

—Athenaeus, c. 230

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889