Whoever gulps down wine as a horse gulps down water is called a Scythian.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Life 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.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.