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

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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

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.

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

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

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