Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over. — Mark Twain
Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold. — Jerry Vale
Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey! — Zachary Taylor
What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for. — Proverbs
Champagne's funny stuff. I'm used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes. — James Stewart
Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. — Billy Sunday
I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it. — General Robert E. Lee
Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses. — Toby Keith
I like the Whisky old an the women young — Errol Flynn
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter. — Samuel Beckett
Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man. — Masataka Taketsuru
You'll be my glass of wine
I'll be your shot of whiskey — Blake Shelton
God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world. — Ed Mcmahon
Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it's not very scientific, but it helps. — Alexander Fleming
I'm a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch but I don't get it. It smells like a girl who didn't shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on. — Mads Mikkelsen
Short Whiskey Quotes
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world. — Wilhelm II
I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch. — George Burns
Good friends, good whiskey, and good lovin', I want to thank you Lord. — Hank Williams, Jr.
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough. — Mark Twain
Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. — Carry Nation
Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils. — Carrie Nation
Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. — P. J. O'Rourke
There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and the other one is Malt Whisky — R. H. Bruce Lockhart
What butter and whiskey won’t cure, there is no cure for. — Irish Proverbs
My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey. — Igor Stravinsky
Whiskey Image Quotes
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting? — W. C. Fields
Irish Whiskey Quotes
Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste. — Tug McGraw
The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude. — James Joyce
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza. — Dave Barry
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer. — Frank Zappa
"Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour. — Samuel Johnson
They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish) — John Steinbeck
Awesome! I'd just bullied Jesus into doing a shot with me. Nobody would ever believe it, but I didn't care. We ordered the insanely expensive stuff, seventy-five dollars for a 1.75-ounce pour of premium Irish whiskey, because if you're doing a shot with Jesus, you don't buy him scotch. — Kevin Hearne
The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time. — Maria Edgeworth
Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey? — Maria Edgeworth
God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world. — Kinky Friedman
Scotch Whiskey Quotes
Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak. — Johnny Carson
I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it. — Mark Twain
I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days! — Tommy Cooper
Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast. — Compton Mackenzie
Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink. — Haruki Murakami
There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others. — William Faulkner
The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed. — David Daiches
I like my whisky old and my women young. — Errol Flynn
My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch. — Rodney Dangerfield
Whisky Quotes
Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind but falling in love and not getting arrested. — Hunter S. Thompson
I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other. — Ava Gardner
May the enemies of Ireland never eat bread nor drink whisky, but be tormented with itching without benefit of scratching. — Irish Proverbs
I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. — Hugo Black
That's Delhi. When life gets too much for you all you need to do is to spend an hour at Nigambodh Ghat,watch the dead being put to flames and hear their kin wail for them. Then come home and down a couple of pegs of whisky. In Delhi, death and drink make life worth living. — Khushwant Singh
It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it. — Ronnie Corbett
Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whisky bottle in the hand of another... There are just some kind of men who - who're so busy worrying about the next world they've never learned to live in this one, and you can look down the street and see the results. — Harper Lee
It is one of the most hauntingly beautiful places in the world, the history is fascinating, the men are handsome and the whisky is delicious. But don't eat the macaroni pies. — J. K. Rowling
The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor. — Edna Ferber
Scotch Whisky Quotes
Scotch whisky is made from barley and the morning dew on angel's nipples. — Warren Ellis
An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. — Abigail Padgett
The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it. — Winston Churchill
Scotch Whisky is about the only thing left that is guaranteed to bring comfort to mankind. — Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby
Liquor Quotes
When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality. — Al Capone
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't. — William Faulkner
Don't trust a brilliant idea unless it survives the hangover. — Jimmy Breslin
I am going to St. Petersburg, Florida, tomorrow. Let the worthy citizens of Chicago get their liquor the best they can. I'm sick of the job-it's a thankless one and full of grief. I've been spending the best years of my life as a public benefactor. — Al Capone
The centuries last passed have also given the taste important extension; the discovery of sugar, and its different preparations, of alcoholic liquors, of wine, ices, vanilla, tea and coffee, have given us flavors hitherto unknown. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on. — Oscar Levant
Cocktail party: A gathering held to enable forty people to talk about themselves at the same time. The man who remains after the liquor is gone is the host. — Fred Allen
I like liquor - its taste and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it. — Stonewall Jackson
Bourbon Quotes
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it. — Lewis Grizzard
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit. — Frida Kahlo
I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it. — Lillian Gordy Carter
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it. — Lyndon B. Johnson
How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter. — W. C. Fields
Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat. — Dizzy Dean
Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust. — Walker Percy
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters. — Carson Mccullers
Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon. — Dean Acheson
It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics. — Willie Nelson
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games. — Casey Stengel
I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God. — Johnny Cash
Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. — Clarence Darrow
People have the right to ask questions and dig deep when you're hurting people and things around you, but when I haven't talked to anyone in years, and every single article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this- that ain't my title...my bad habits aren't my title. My strengths and talents are my title. — Layne Staley
It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend. — Louis Armstrong
No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face. — Carrie Nation
There's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there. — Charles Bukowski
But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey. — Jimmy Hoffa
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. — Lord Dunsany
Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail. — Junior Johnson
When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time. — Max McGee
In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn't addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it. — George Burns
Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer! — Louis Untermeyer
Whiskey's to tough, Champagne costs too much, Vodka puts my mouth in gear. I hope this refrain, Will help me explain, As a matter of fact, I like beer. — Tom T. Hall
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others. — Raymond Chandler
Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell. — James J. Hill
Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey — Ernest Hemingway
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