Whiskey quotes
87 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it."
"You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey."
"There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others."
"Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine."
"Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals."
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"Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation."
"Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine."
"Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don't get you then the whiskey must."
"Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better."
"Whisky is liquid sunshine."
"Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches."
"You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey."
"Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither."
""Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour."
"Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!"
"Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making."
"It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one."
"Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues."
"When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism."
"Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?"
"The whiskey died away in time and was renewed and died again, but the street ran on. From that night the thousand streets ran as one street, with imperceptible corners and changes of scene."
"That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them."
"When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane."
"I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record."
"Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think."
