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.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

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.

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.

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

A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.

Moderation in all things.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

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

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

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

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

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