Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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

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

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

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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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.

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.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

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.

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.

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.