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

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.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

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

The drunken man is a living corpse.

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.

I 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.

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.

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.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.