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

—Mitch Hedberg, 1999

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

—Herman Melville, 1851

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.

—Martin Luther, 1569

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

—Ernest Hemingway, 1935

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1749

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

As he brews, so shall he drink.

—Ben Jonson, 1598

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

—Jack Kerouac, 1957

It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well, and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well, and justly without living pleasurably.

—Epicurus, c. 300 BC

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

—William Wycherley, 1675

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

—Anthelme Brillat-Savarin, 1825

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

—Booth Tarkington, 1914

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.

—Edmund Burke, 1795