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.

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

— Dr. Charles Mayo

O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should, with joy, pleasance, rev…

— Shakespeare

Drunkenness is nothing else but a voluntary madness.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca