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

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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.

Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

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

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.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

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

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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.