Whiskey Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• 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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• My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

  William Faulkner

  Drinking, Writing, Scotch Whisky

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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• Ninety percent I'll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I'll probably waste.

  Tug McGraw

  Waste, Good Times, Ninety

  Quoted in Bert Sugar, Book of Sports Quotes (1979)

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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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• 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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• It was just so in the American Revolution, in 1776, the first delicacy the men threw overboard in Boston harbor was the tea, woman's favorite beverage. The tobacco and whiskey, though heavily taxed, they clung to with the tenacity of the devil-fish.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Men, Boston, Tea

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2012). “The Woman's Bible”, p.141, tredition

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• There's a bluebird in my heart that
  wants to get out
  but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
  cigarette smoke
  and the whores and the bartenders
  and the grocery clerks
  never know that
  he's
  in there.

  Charles Bukowski

  Heart, Cigarette Smoke, Clerks

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.494, Canongate Books

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• I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead.

  Billy Childish

  Drinking, Yoga, Health

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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, Drink, Brewing

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

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• Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.

  Toby Keith

  Horse, Beer, Men

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• Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

  Sean O Faolain

  Writing, Stories, Mature

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• There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

  William Faulkner

  Funny, Humorous, Drinking

  In James M. Webb and A. Wigfall Green William Faulkner of Oxford (1965) p. 110

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• Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I'll be dead.'' Okay, she wasn't a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.

  John Zakour

  Fool Me Once, Mentor, Shame

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• Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.

  Langston Hughes

  Beer, Likes

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.2, Hill and Wang

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• Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

  Nick Cave

  Brother, Wine, Tiny

  "Song: 'Brother, My Cup Is Empty'". 1992.

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• What else could I tell them? I like my women like I like my whiskey: 12 years old and mixed up with coke.

  Zach Braff

  Years, Coke

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• No man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I'd say, I won't let you - you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil - talk to me face to face.

  Carrie Nation

  Beer, Men, Devil

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• But to hear Kennedy when he was grandstanding in front of the McClellan Committee you might have thought I was making as much out of the pension fund as the Kennedys made out of selling whiskey.

  Jimmy Hoffa

  Mcclellan, Might, Selling

  "Hoffa The Real Story" by Jimmy Hoffa, (p. 121), 1975.

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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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• When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

  Tom Waits

  Rain, Weather, Rough

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• Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

  Truman Capote

  Long, Whisky, Fury

  1980 Music for Chameleons,'Handcarved Coffins'.

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• I make my protein drink with whiskey. People think I'm crazy, but that's the way I am. I get stoned, I do my own thing.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: daggy.name

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• sometimes i'd wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. i'd get out of bed, go to the kitchen, and pour myself a whiskey. glass in hand, i'd look down at the darkened cemetary across teh way and the headlights of the cars on the road. the moments of time linking night and dawn were long and dark. if i could cry, it might make things easier. but what would i cry over? i was too self centered to cry for other people, too old to cry for myself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Morning, Fall, Dark

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Feb 13, 2012

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• When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.

  W. C. Fields

  Drinking, Hands, Whisky

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