Mark Twain
Writer, Humorist
"Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough."
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Johnny Carson
Television Host
"Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak."
William Faulkner
Novelist, Poet, Playwright
"Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find."
James Joyce
Novelist, Poet
"The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude."
Ava Gardner
Actress
"I don't mind growing old. If I have to go before my time, this is how I'll go-- cigarette in one hand, glass of scotch in the other."
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"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."
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"Give me a scotch, I'm starving."
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"Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right."
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"If you want to feel less sexy put scotch tape on your nipples."
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"If there's a God out there, then i would hope he has more important things to attend to than my drinking scotch or eating pork."
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"There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others."
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"I was a drinker, so I went through the scotches. Before single malts hit, there were really cheap scotches, because nobody was paying attention to them. Then by the time they started jacking those prices up, I moved on to vodka."
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"The best blended Scotch in the history of the world - which was also the favourite drink of the Iraqi Baath Party, as it still is of the Palestinian Authority and the Libyan dictatorship and large branches of the Saudi Arabian royal family - is Johnnie Walker Black. Breakfast of champions, accept no substitute."
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"Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?"
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"The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it."
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"The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him."
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"I went to the butchers to buy a leg of lamb. "Is it Scotch?", I asked. "Why?" the butcher said in reply. "Are you going to talk to it or eat it?". "In that case, have you got any wild duck?". "No", he responded, "but I've got one I could aggravate for you.""
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"Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave."
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"I sold a quart of blood and bought a half a pint of scotch"
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"I'm all in favor of getting grants for musicians. Or any other good brand of Scotch."
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"Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig."
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"Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!"
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"I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered."
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"A scotch buzz is the best buzz in the world."
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"We all agree it's too big to keep up with, that we're surrounded by life, that we'll never understand it, so we center it all in by swigging Scotch from the bottle and when it's empty I run out of the car and buy another one, period."
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