An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BCQuotes
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999Abstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906If 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, 1983I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.
—Jack Kerouac, 1957Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397