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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man’s true character, make him drunk.