Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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

Moderation in all things.

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

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.

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.

If you were to ask me if I’d ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I’d have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

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

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.

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

I mean, why on earth (outside sickness and hangovers) aren’t people continually drunk? I want ecstasy of the mind all the time.

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