I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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.

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

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

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

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

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

The drunken man is a living corpse.

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

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.