Drinking Whiskey Quotes - Page 3

• You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.

  Bruce Aidells

  Humorous, Drinking, Nursing

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• Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak.

  Johnny Carson

  Dog, Scotch, Bottles

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• I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

  Robert E. Lee

  Drinking, Scotch Whisky, Alcohol

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• Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night

  Benjamin Franklin

  Morning, Beer, Night

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• 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

  Glasses, Hands, Years

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• There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

  Ron White

  Real, Beer, Scotch

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• Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Food, Drinking, Beer

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Stars, Drinking, Winning

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• There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

  William Faulkner

  Drinking, Scotch, Whiskey

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• I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Beer, Safety

  'Henry V' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [13]

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• Drinking is a way of ending the day.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Beer, Way

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• God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

  Anne Sexton

  Humorous, Beer, Voice

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

  H. L. Mencken

  Marriage, Men, Scotch Whisky

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• Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!

  Louis Untermeyer

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Louis Untermeyer (1930). “Blue Rhine, Black Forest: A Hand- & Day-book”

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• It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.

  Jim Morrison

  Drinking, Night, Gambling

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• Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

  W. C. Fields

  Vat, Comedy, Whiskey

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

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• Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Beer, Sorrow, Drink

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• The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

  Terry Goodkind

  Humorous, Drinking, Thinking

  "Sword of Truth". Series of novels by Terry Goodkind, 1994-2018.

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• A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Beer, Whiskey, Drink

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly against it. But, if when you say 'whiskey' you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine... the drink that enables a man to magnify his joy... then I am certainly for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.

  Noah S. Sweat

  Wine, Mean, Men

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• When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?

  Ernest Hemingway

  Running, Hard Work, Ideas

  Ernest Hemingway, Carlos Baker (2003). “Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• Will you stop drinking whiskey? Let me plead with you to do so. And if the sisters would not think it oppressive, I would ask them to not drink quite so much strong tea.

  Brigham Young

  Strong, Drinking, Thinking

  Brigham Young (1867). “Journal of Discourses”, p.107

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• You put three girls in a house, and all of a sudden before you know it, youre talking about boys and drinking whiskey, and things go down and you get deep real quick.

  Katie Aselton

  Girl, Real, Drinking

  "Black Rock Down at Sundance". Interview with Jenni Miller, www.gq.com. January 23, 2012.

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• Y'all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you're not an alcoholic it's pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it's a very solo ritual. It's not gregarious at all. But vice has always informed country music and all music.

  Ketch Secor

  Country, Fun, Drinking

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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