Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749Quotes
I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999If 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, 1983Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390That 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, 1569Life 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.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857There 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, 1969A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
—Ian Dury, 1977It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.
—Epicurus, c. 300 BCAlcohol is the monarch of liquids.
—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825