~ I drink no more than a sponge ~
~ If four or five guys tell you that you're drunk, even though you know you haven't had a thing to drink, the least you can do is to lie down a little while ~
~ Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. ~
~ Drunkards are doomed to hell, so men declare, Believe it not, 'tis but a foolish scare; Heaven will be empty as this hand of mine, If none who love good drink find entrance there ~
~ Many contemporary authors drink more than they write ~
~ Under a bad cloak there is often a good drinker ~
~ Drinking is the soldier's pleasure. ~
~ Let those that merely talk and never think, That live in the wild anarchy of drink ~
~ 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. ~
~ This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought. ~
~ I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it. ~
~ The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. ~