Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.
Socrates
Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness
Bertrand Russell
Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.
Herman Melville
A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine
William Shakespeare
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write
Maxim Gorky
I view the tea-drinking as a destroyer of health, an enfeebler of the frome, an engender of effeminacy and laziness, a debaucher of youth and maker of misery for old age
William Cobbett
Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink
Ben Jonson
Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much. Then again, don't drink too little.
Smith-Johannsen
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
Ernest Hemingway
I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.
Raymond Chandler
Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living.
Jean Kerr
Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.
Knute Rockne