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

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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.

There was a great deal of drinking among us but little drunkenness. We all seemed to feel that Prohibition was a personal affront and that we had a moral duty to undermine it.

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

Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.

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

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.

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.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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

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