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.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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

To live on a day-to-day basis is insufficient for human beings; we need to transcend, transport, escape; we need meaning, understanding, and explanation.

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.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.