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

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

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

I have sometimes thought that the laws ought not to punish those actions of evil which are committed when the senses are steeped in intoxication.

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.

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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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

The pleasure we hold in esteem for the course of our lives ought to have a greater share of our time dedicated to it; we should refuse no occasion nor omit any opportunity of drinking, and always have it in our minds.

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.

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

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

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