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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

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

As he brews, so shall he drink.

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.

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

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