“A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can't predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.”

“There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.”

“A drinking man's someone who wants to forget he isn't still young and believing”

“A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he’s not a man of action.”

“You can be a depressive and be happy, just as you can be a sober alcoholic.”

“I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: "Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.”

“The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it he knows too little.”

“It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.”

“There's alcohol in plant and tree.
It must be Nature's plan
That there should be in fair degree
Some alcohol in Man.”

“If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.”