"By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy."
- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
"A torch-light procession marching down your throat."
- John L. O'Sullivan
"First you take a drink then the drink takes a drink then the drink takes you."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"For when the wine is in the wit is out."
- Thomas Becon
"He neither drank smoked nor rode a bicycle. Living frugally saving his money he died early surrounded by greedy relatives. It was a great lesson to me."
- John Barrymore
"He who drinks a little too much drinks much too much."
- Old saying
"I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller."
- George Bernard Shaw
"I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved."
- George Gobel
"The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober."
- William Butler Yeats
"In vino Veritas. (In wine there is truth.)"
- Pliny the Elder