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

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.

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

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

Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need—a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a dangerous thing.

As he brews, so shall he drink.

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

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

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

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

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.

Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Alcohol is the monarch of liquids.