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Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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!
William Shakespeare
It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off.
O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
He who goes to bed, and goes to bed sober,Falls as the leaves do, and dies in October;But he who goes to bed, and goes to bed mellow,Lives as he ought to do, and dies an honest fellow.
John Fletcher, The Bloody Brothe
Never accept a drink from a Urologist.
Erma Bombeck
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
Sir Winston Churchill
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk.
At the punch-bowl's brink, let the thirsty think, what they say in Japan: first the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes the man!
Edward Rowland Sill
When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.
Sir Richard Francis Burton
The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts
Florence Sabin
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
H. L. Mencken
Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.
Seneca (Seneca the Elder)
Thanks be to God. Since my leaving the drinking of wine, I do find myself much better, and do mind my business better, and do spend less money, and less time lost in idle company.
Samuel Pepys
They who drink beer will think beer.
Washington Irving
Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
Jonathan Swift
Sir, I have no objection to a man's drinking wine, if he can do it in moderation. I found myself apt to go to excess in it, and therefore, after having been for some time without it, on account of illness, I thought it better not to return to it. Every man is to judge for himself, according to the effects which he experiences.
Samuel Johnson, J. Boswell The L
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
Friedrich Nietzsche
The piano has been drinking, not me.
Tom Waits
All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
William Penn
