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

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.

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

As he brews, so shall he drink.

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

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

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.

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.

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

Drunkenness is the very sepulcher

Of man’s wit and his discretion.

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.