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I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.

—Mitch Hedberg, 1999

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.

—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969

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

—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390

Moderation in all things.

—Terence, 166 BC

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908

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.

—Martin Luther, 1569

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1749

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

—Athenaeus, c. 230

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

—William James, 1902

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.

—Oliver Sacks, 2012

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

—Hipponax, c. 550 BC

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

—Ian Dury, 1977

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

—Ambrose Bierce, 1906