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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.

—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969

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

—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

—Herman Melville, 1851

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.

—Oliver Sacks, 2012

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

—William Wycherley, 1675

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

—Plato, c. 360 BC

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.

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

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.

—Jerome K. Jerome, 1889

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.

—Martin Luther, 1569

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1749

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

—Samuel Johnson, 1779

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

—Mitch Hedberg, 1999

Moderation in all things.

—Terence, 166 BC