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

Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

Wine is bottled poetry.

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

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.

When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

Wine hath drowned more men than the sea.