It was a woman who drove me to drink, and I never had the courtesy to thank her for it.
It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.
It's not the drinking to be blamed, but the excess.
Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.
Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.
Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; the best of life is but intoxication.
Many a woman drives a man to drink? water.
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.
My experience through life has convinced me that, while moderation and temperance in all things are commendable and beneficial, abstinence from spirituous liquors is the best safeguard of morals and health.
Never accept a drink from a Urologist.
No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation.
No power on earth or above the bottomless pit has such influence to terrorize and make cowards of men as the liquor power. Satan could not have fallen on a more potent instrument with which to thrall the world. Alcohol is king!
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause transform ourselves into beasts!
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.
Old wine and friends improve with age.
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philter, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.
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