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

—Geoffrey Chaucer, c. 1390

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

—Mary Baker Eddy, 1908

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

—Benjamin Franklin, 1749

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.

—Hunter S. Thompson, 1971

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

—Herman Melville, 1851

The drunken man is a living corpse.

—St. John Chrysostom, c. 390

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

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

—Mitch Hedberg, 1999

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

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1832

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

—Samuel Johnson, 1779

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

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

—Saint Augustine, 397

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.

—Walt Whitman, 1842