"Jellinek's disease (alcoholism) is responsible for: 50 percent of all auto fatalities 80 percent of all home violence 30 percent of all suicides 60 percent of all child abuse 65 percent of all drownin..."
- Kathleen Whalen Fitzgerald
"Eat bread at pleasure drink wine by measure."
- Randle Cotgrave
"We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame almost always is placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You ca..."
- W. C. Fields
"It's a naive domestic burgundy without any breeding but I think you'll be amused by its presumption."
- James Thurber
"Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness."
- Seneca
"There are more old drunkards than old physicians."
- Francois Rabelais
"He is . . . like many other geniuses a greater friend to the bottle than the bottle is to him."
- William Lyon Mackenzie
"Boys should abstain from all use of wine until their eighteenth year for it is wrong to add fire to fire."
- Plato
"I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake - which I also keep handy."
"We had gone out there to pass the beautiful day of high summer like true Irishmen - locked in the dark Snug of a public house."
- Brendan Behan