Whiskey Quotes - Page 4

• I drink to make other people interesting.

  George Jean Nathan

  Drinking, Book, Beer

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• I like my whisky old and my women young.

  Errol Flynn

  Drinking, Scotch, Funny Alcohol

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• Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Dirty, Food

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Drinking, Wine, Scotch

  "Facepaint, champagne and antelope skin - writers' oddball quirks revealed" by Charlotte Seager, www.theguardian.com. July 23, 2015.

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• The first time I lose I drink whiskey, second time I lose I drink gin. Third time I lose I drink anything 'cause I think I'm gonna win.

  Gram Parsons

  Winning, Thinking, Alcohol

  Song: Ooh Las Vegas, Album: Grievous Angel, 1974

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• Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

  W. C. Fields

  Scotch, Nerves, Bartending

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• Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.

  Daisy Ashford

  Prayer, Halls, Pious

  'The Young Visiters' (1919) ch. 3

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

  Mark Twain

  Rooms, Congress, Committees

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

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• Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

  Carrie Nation

  Drinking, Beer, Men

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• Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

  Artie Lange

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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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• Sometimes the Bible in the hands of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hands of another.

  Harper Lee

  Men, Hands, Bottles

  Harper Lee (1960). “TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD”

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• We frequently hear of people dying from too much drinking. That this happens is a matter of record. But the blame is always placed on whisky. Why this should be I never could understand. You can die from drinking too much of anything - coffee, water, milk, soft drinks and all such stuff as that. And so as long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing. I will make mine whisky.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Coffee, Simple

  W. C. Fields (2016). “W.C. Fields by Himself: His Intended Autobiography with Hitherto Unpublished Letters, Notes, Scripts, and Articles”, p.152, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Beer does not taste like itself unless it is chasing a dram of neat whisky down the gullet - preferably two drams

  Compton Mackenzie

  Beer, Two, Doe

  Sir Compton Mackenzie (1950). “Tight Little Island”

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• To a writer, an open browser tab is like a glass of whiskey. 1 or 2 can help the work. Too many ensures that nothing gets done.

  Andy Ihnatko

  Glasses, Done, Helping

  Twitter post from Feb 16, 2014

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• Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

  Wilhelm II

  Funny, Kings, Women

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• There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Beer, Men

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 2, p. 452 (21 March 1776)

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• It is all well and good for children and acid freaks to believe in Santa Claus - but it is still a profoundly morbid day for us working professionals. It is unsettling to know that one out of every twenty people you meet on Xmas will be dead this time next year.... Some people can accept this, and some can't. That is why God made whiskey, and also why Wild Turkey comes in $300 shaped canisters during most of the Christmas season...

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Xmas, Children, Believe

  "Fear and Loathing in Elko" by Hunter S. Thompson, www.rollingstone.com. January 23, 1992.

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• Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Scotch, Let Me

  "The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides". Book by James Boswell. Statement on October 23, 1773., 1785.

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• My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Thinking, Scotch, Names

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• "Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Spirit, Flavour, Distinguished

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• I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

  H. L. Mencken

  Book, Men, Drunk

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

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• Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

  Brandi Carlile

  Coffee, Fishing, Needs

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