Whiskey Quotes

• 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.

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

  Raymond Chandler

  Drinking, Alcohol, Bourbon

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• God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

  Ed McMahon

  Drinking, Drunk, Alcohol

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• You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.

  Bill Murray

  Adventure, Common Sense, Handle

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• A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Drinking, Book

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• Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

  Oscar Wilde

  Funny, Witty, Work

  Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

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• It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.

  Ronnie Corbett

  Age, Whisky

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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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• Whisky is liquid sunshine.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sunshine, Liquid, Drink

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• Never delay kissing a pretty girl or opening a bottle of whiskey

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Kissing, Bottles

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• Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Men, Bullets

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• I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Beauty, Sarcastic

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

  Mark Twain

  Civilization, Pioneers, Railroads

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• My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Scotch, Missing, Bottles

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  An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Drinking, Beer

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

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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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  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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• You can't find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you'll forget the questions.

  George Patterson

  Glasses, Looks, Answers

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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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• What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?

  W. Clement Stone

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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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, Whisky

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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, Drink

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

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• There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Prayer, Book, Glasses

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.162, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.

  Masataka Taketsuru

  Blessing, Men, Cooperation

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