“Woe unto them that rise up early in the morning, that they may follow strong drink; that continue until night, till wine inflame them!”
— Isaiah 5:11 (King James Version).
“The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this.”
— Albert Einstein, My First Impression of the USA (1921).
“The last time I seen my father, he was blind in the cedars from drinking. And every time he put the bottle to his mouth, he don't suck out of it, it sucks out of him...”
— Ken Kesey, from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, in the character of Chief Bromden.
“To alcohol! The cause of - and solution to - all of life's problems.”
— The Simpsons, (spoken by Homer Simpson), Homer vs. the Eighteenth Amendment (1997).
“Let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.”
— I Corinthians, XV. 32. Isaiah, XXII. 13. Convivæ certe tui dicunt, Bibamus moriendum est. Seneca the Younger, Controv, XIV.
“I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment.”
— William Shakespeare, Othello (c. 1603), Act II, scene 3, line 35.

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