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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, Othello

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
~ Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

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

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.
~ Joseph Schenck

This is one of the disadvantages of wine: it makes a man mistake words for thought.
~ Samuel Johnson

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
~ Lady Astor

A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills."
~ Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.
~ W.C. Fields

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.
~ Thomas de Quincy, Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, 1856