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

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

Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

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.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

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

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

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

A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.

The drunken man is a living corpse.

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

Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.