Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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.

Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drunkenness expands, unites, and says yes.

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.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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