Drunkenness

"The prohibition law, written for weaklings and derelicts, those who cannot control their appetites, has divided the nation, like Gaul, into three parts — wets, drys and hypocrites."

"It’s not my wish to walk intoxicated; to live for never is not my choice."

"It would not be too much to say that if all drinking of fermented liquors could be done away, crime of every kind would fall to a fourth of its present amount, and the whole tone of moral feeling in the lower order might be indefinitely raised."

"May my pain remain drunk singing its own love songs"

"Men intoxicated are sometimes stunned into sobriety."

"He that kyllyth a man drunk, sobur schal be hangyd."

"The use of intoxicating drinks as a beverage is as much an infatuation as is the smoking of opium by the Chinese, and the former is quite as destructive to the success of the business man as the latter."

"Tonight, may I get so drunk in love that I do not see any dreams!"

"Drunkenness, for example, is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness."

"Qui peccat ebrius; luat sobrius."

"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 in to this vice. The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and generosity."