Whiskey Quotes - Page 13

• There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Men, People

  Minority Report: H. L. Mencken's Notebooks (1956)

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• Your bird drinks whiskey and eats tobacco?" The old man frowned."Just be lad he doesn't like eatin' scrawny boys that don't know their way 'round the Otherworld.

  Kami Garcia

  Boys, Men, Bird

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• Moonshiners put more time, energy, thought, and love into their cars than any racer ever will. Lose on the track, and you go home. Lose with a load of whiskey, and you go to jail.

  Junior Johnson

  Home, Nascar Racing, Jail

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• Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work. Traps: Artistry or no artistry; everything sucked you into some spiderweb. I disdained the use of the needle for the same reason that I disdained some so-called beautiful women - the price was far beyond the measure of the worth. I didn't want to hustle that hard.

  Charles Bukowski

  Beautiful, Wine, Beer

  Charles Bukowski (2008). “Charles Bukowski: portions from a wine-stained notebook : uncollected stories and essays, 1944-1990”, City Lights Publishers

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• Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man.

  Clarence Darrow

  Believe, Men, Garden

  Clarence Darrow's remarks at a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a Emanuel Haldeman-Julius' eulogy for Clarence Darrow, 1938.

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• I love songs about horses, railroads, land, Judgment Day, family, hard times, whiskey, courtship, marriage, adultery, separation, murder, war, prison, rambling, damnation, home, salvation, death, pride, humor, piety, rebellion, patriotism, larceny, determination, tragedy, rowdiness, heartbreak and love. And Mother. And God.

  Johnny Cash

  Love, Mother, Song

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• Unless he had whiskey running through his veins, Willard came to the clearing every morning and evening to talk to God. Arvin didn't know which was worse, the drinking or the praying. As far back as he could remember, it seemed that his father had fought the Devil all the time.

  Donald Ray Pollock

  Running, Morning, Father

  "Donald Ray Pollock On Finding Fiction Late In Life". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. July 26, 2011.

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  As adults we try to relax from the never-ending quest for reason and order by drinking a little whiskey or smoking whatever works for us, but the wisdom isn't in the whiskey or the smoke. The wisdom is in the moments when the madness slips away and we remember the basics.

  Willie Nelson

  Drinking, Order, Smoking

  Willie Nelson, Turk Pipkin (2006). “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart”, p.29, Penguin

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• Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.

  Craig Ferguson

  Book, Bottles, World

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• 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.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Way, Looks, Opium

  W. Somerset Maugham (2009). “The Painted Veil”, p.145, Random House

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• I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax.

  Charles Bukowski

  Art, Drinking, Writing

  "Factotum". Book by Charles Bukowski, Ch. 29, 1975.

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• I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

  Babe Ruth

  Wine, Beer, Thinking

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• He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.

  James Salter

  Reading, Color, People

  FaceBook post by James Salter from Mar 18, 2017

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• Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

  Lord Dunsany

  Taken, Math, Statistics

  "My Ireland". Book by Lord Dunsany (Chapter XIX: Weeds and Moss), 1937.

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• When it's third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I'll take the whiskey drinkers every time.

  Max McGee

  Sports, Football, Nfl

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• There isn’t any significant difference between the various brands of whiskey, or cigarettes or beer. They are all about the same. And so are the cake mixes and the detergents, and the margarines… The manufacturer who dedicates his advertising to building the most sharply defined personality for his brand will get the largest share of the market at the highest profit.

  David Ogilvy

  Beer, Cake, Differences

  David Ogilvy (1963). “Confessions of an advertising man”, Holiday House

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• It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.

  Louis Armstrong

  Weed, Marijuana, Dope

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• Economy, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Needs, Cows, Economy

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2387, Delphi Classics

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• As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Worry, Focus

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• It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

  Sherman Alexie

  Fear, Drinking, Rocks

  Sherman Alexie (2013). “The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven”, p.58, Open Road Media

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