Quote by Charles Dibdin

“Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary.…

— Henry David Thoreau

Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best…

— Anonymous

To drink in the spirit of a place you should be not only alone but unhurried.

— George Santayana

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

— Euripides

Drunkenness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness

— Bertrand Russell

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on…

— Charles Baudelaire

It is time to get drunk! So as not to be the martyred slaves of Time, get drunk; get drunk without stopping! On wine,…

— Charles Baudelaire

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

— Samuel Johnson

“Who dies best, the soldier who falls for your sake, or the fly in my whiskey-glass? The happy agony of the fly is his…

— William T. Vollmann

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Be Drunken, Always. That is the point; nothing else matters. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weigh you down and…

— Charles Baudelaire

Drunkeness is temporary suicide: the happiness that it brings is merely negative, a momentary cessation of unhappiness.

— Bertrand Russell