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

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.

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

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

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

There 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.

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

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

If 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.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

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.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.