"The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"They talk of my drinking but never my thirst."
- Old saying
"What when drunk one sees in other women one sees in Garbo sober."
- Kenneth Tynan
"You are not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
- Dean Martin
"I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it."
- Thomas Stonewall Jackson
"The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk and then in the morning when they are sober the decision to which t..."
- Herodotus
"Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative a momentary cessation of unhappiness."
- Bertrand Russell
"Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune."
- Guiseppe Garibaldi
"Temperance is the control of all the functions of our bodies. The man who refuses liquor goes in for apple pie and develops a paunch is no ethical leader for me."
- John Erskine
"Nothing ever tasted any better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to but more of the same."
- Hugh Hood