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

The drunken man is a living corpse.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

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

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

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

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.

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

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

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

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

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

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.