We drink to one another's health, And yet before we've finished Our round of toasts, our state of health Has noticeable …

— Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

First the man—takes the drink, then the drink—takes the man.

— Japanese Proverb

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

— Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald

The man who drinks to drown his sorrow is trying to put out a fire with oil.

Some of the domestic evils of drunkenness are houses without windows, gardens without fences, fields without tillage, ba…

— Benjamin Franklin

You can get along with a wooden leg, but you can’t get along with a wooden head.

— Dr. Charles Mayo