Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1654 - 1734), Gnomologia, 1732

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Nancy Astor (1879 - 1964)

Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony.
Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
Dylan Thomas (1914 - 1953), in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)

All excess is ill, but drunkenness is of the worst sort. It spoils health, dismounts the mind, and unmans men. It reveals secrets, is quarrelsome, lascivious, impudent, dangerous and bad.
William Penn (1644 - 1718)

If we burn ourselves out with drugs or alcohol, we won't have long to go in this business.
John Belushi, Playboy Interview - May 1977