Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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.

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

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

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.

Moderation in all things.

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.

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

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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.

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.

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