"Moderation is commonly firm and firmness is commonly successful."
- Samuel Johnson
"Abstinence is as easy for me as temperance would be difficult."
"I drink to make other people interesting."
- George Jean Nathan
"One of the disadvantages of wine is that is makes a man mistake words for thoughts."
"The innkeeper loves the drunkard but not for a son-in-law."
- Jewish proverb
"Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more."
- Robert C. Edwards
"Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to man."
- A. E. Housman
"A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry."
- Bible
"Drink not the third glass - which thou can'st not tame when once it is within thee."
- George Herbert
"An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink."
- Sean O'Faolain