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Quotes

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

—Ian Dury, 1977

The drunken man is a living corpse.

—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390

As far as I can see, the history of experimental art in the twentieth century is intimately bound up with the experience of intoxification.

—Will Self, 1994

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.

—Jane Austen, c. 1798

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.

—Oliver Sacks, 2012

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

—Plato, c. 360 BC

If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

—Luis Buñuel, 1983

People who’ve drunk neat wine don’t care a damn.

—Hipponax, c. 550 BC

As he brews, so shall he drink.

—Ben Jonson, 1598

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908

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

—Samuel Johnson, 1779

Moderation in all things.

—Terence, 166 BC

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

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832