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.

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

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

The 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.

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

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.

That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man’s true character, make him drunk.

Modern life is often a mechanical oppression, and liquor is the only mechanical relief.

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.

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

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.

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

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