Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749Quotes
People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.
—Hipponax, c. 550 BCDrinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we’d get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.
—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971Life 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.
—Thomas Hughes, 1857Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.
—Saint Augustine, 397An old man is twice a child, and so is a drunken man.
—Plato, c. 360 BCAbstainer, n. A weak man who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.
—Ambrose Bierce, 1906Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390A true German can’t stand the French, / Yet willingly he drinks their wines.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated has not the art of getting drunk.
—Samuel Johnson, 1779