Bourbon Quotes

• 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

  Beer, Devil, Encounters

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• 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

  Men, Drunk, Sick

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• 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

  Food, Sleep, Cooking

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• Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust.

  Walker Percy

  Cake, Alcohol, Pieces

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• 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

  Breakfast, Advertising, Beats

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• I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon.

  Hugo Black

  Believe, Kentucky, Scotch Whisky

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• 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

  Morning, Sunday, Musical

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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

  Drinking, Sick, Way

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• There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.

  Raymond Chandler

  Drinking, Alcohol, Whiskey

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• 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

  Breakfast, Radio, Littles

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• 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

  Power, Race, Vegetables

  Percy Bysshe Shelley, Donald H. Reiman, Neil Fraistat (2004). “The Complete Poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.303, JHU Press

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• I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

  Jack Lemmon

  Funny, Music, Morning

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• Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.

  Jerry Vale

  Drinking, Scotch Whisky, Alcohol

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• You say tomato, I say bourbon and coke.

  Drew Carey

  Tomatoes, Coke

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.

  Andrew Jackson

  Gun, Jugs, Cards

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• 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.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Humor, Wish, Whiskey

  Martin D. Tullai, Abraham Lincoln (1998). “Speaking of Abraham Lincoln”

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• Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit.

  Frida Kahlo

  Looks, Biscuits, Lovers

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• I'm not out there screaming that women are drinking bourbon, but I think it's a great beverage as an option. I've got nothing against drinking a Cosmo or Martini. It's not like one is judging the other. It's just delicious and slow and steady, and there's something about sipping a bourbon that to me is very relaxing.

  Mila Kunis

  Drinking, Thinking, Judging

  Interview with Robert Haynes-Peterson, www.askmen.com. February 25, 2014.

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• I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass.

  Tom T. Hall

  Coffee, Glasses, Alcohol

  Song: I Love, Album: Country Songs for Children, 1995

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• There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.

  Gillian Flynn

  Dark, Bars, World

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.18, Broadway Books

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• Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose.

  John Michael Hayes

  Running, Drinking, Years

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• If it's not bourbon or sweatpants, it's going in the garbage.... No, don't get creative. Now is not a creative time. Now is a bourbon and sweatpants time.

  Justin Halpern

  Creative, Garbage, Sweatpants

  Justin Halpern (2010). “Shit My Dad Says”, p.88, Pan Macmillan

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• I like my whisky old and my women young.

  Errol Flynn

  Drinking, Scotch, Whiskey

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