Mark Twain Quotes About Whiskey

• Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Wine, Scotch

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain on Common Sense: Timeless Advice and Words of Wisdom from America's Most-Revered Humorist”, p.37, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

• Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Beer, Men

• Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Fighting, Water

• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Gambling, Long, Whiskey

• 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

  Drinking, Night, Scotch

  Mark Twain (2012). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations”, p.42, Courier Corporation

• The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!

  Mark Twain

  Civilization, Pioneers, Railroads

• It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

  Mark Twain

  Believe, Reading, Eye

  Mark Twain (2006). “Mark Twain Speaking”, p.158, University of Iowa Press

• Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

  Mark Twain

  Rooms, Whiskey, Congress

  Mark Twain, Paul Fatout (1997). “Mark Twain Speaks for Himself”, p.50, Purdue University Press

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