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.

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

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.

Thanks be to God: since my leaving drinking of wine, I do find myself much better and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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

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

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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

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

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

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

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