Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.
—Athenaeus, c. 230Quotes
Drunkenness is the very sepulcher / Of man’s wit and his discretion.
—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390Thanks 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.
—Samuel Pepys, 1662There 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.
—Elizabeth Anderson, 1969Drink today and drown all sorrow; / You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.
—John Fletcher, 1625There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
—Booth Tarkington, 1914Life 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, 397Drinking with women is as unnatural as scolding with ’em.
—William Wycherley, 1675As he brews, so shall he drink.
—Ben Jonson, 1598I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.
—Walt Whitman, 1842I used to do drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
—Mitch Hedberg, 1999Drink does not drown care but waters it, and makes it grow faster.
—Benjamin Franklin, 1749