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.

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.

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

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.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

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.

Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.

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

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

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.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations—wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

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