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

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

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

The 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.

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.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

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

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

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.

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

As he brews, so shall he 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.