“I drink eternally. For me it is an eternity of drinking, and a drinking up of eternity.”

If you want to avoid seeing an idiot, break the mirror.

A habit does not a monk make.

Debts and lies are generally mixed together.

Languages exist by arbitrary institutions and conventions among peoples; words, as the dialecticians tell us, do not signify naturally, but at our pleasure.

I never drink without a thirst, either present or future.

Science sans conscience. Knowledge without conscience is but the ruin of the soul.

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

It is my feeling that Time ripens all things; with Time all things are revealed; Time is the father of truth.

The scent of wine, oh how much more agreeable, laughing, praying, celestial and delicious it is than that of oil!

Frugality is for the vulgar.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.

Misery is the company of lawsuits.

I drink no more than a sponge.

If the skies fall, one may hope to catch larks.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

There comes a time in every woman’s life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Beer, it’s the best damn drink in the world.

Greatness of any kind has no greater foe than a habit of drinking.

Of all vices, drinking is the most incompatible with greatness.

I just hope that one day – preferably when we’re both blind drunk – we can talk about it.

One does not drink. One gives a kiss to his glass, and the wine returns a caress to you.

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn’t afterward.

We may lead a horse to water we cannot make him drink; and that while we can shut a man up in a penitentiary we cannot make him penitent.