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.

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

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

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.

My advice to people today is as follows: if you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out.

Drink today and drown all sorrow;

You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow.

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.

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

As he brews, so shall he drink.

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

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.