A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779Quotes
Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625Under 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.
—Edmund Burke, 1795Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
—Herman Melville, 1851Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.
—Ernest Hemingway, 1935The drunken man is a living corpse.
—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
—Gore Vidal, 1981I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908