Whiskey famous quotes

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 #Whiskey

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.
-- Artie Lange

#Whiskey

Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.
-- Artie Shaw

#Bottles #Jazz #Whiskey

I'm not very geeky. I'm quite homespun. I would say I'm more modern rustic than gadget-orientated. I like woollen things and log fires and whiskey
-- Benedict Cumberbatch

#Fire #Gadgets #Whiskey

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

#Common Sense #Common #Whiskey

Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell.
-- Billy Sunday

#Christian #Beer #Whiskey

Whiskey is all right in its place - but its place is hell.
-- Billy Sunday

#Whiskey #Hell

Which would you part with first -- your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?
-- Brigham Young

#Religion #Firsts #Whiskey

We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
-- Buffalo Bill

#Whiskey #Investment #Liquor

He taught me the difference between a good single malt whisky and a bad one.
-- Catherine Zeta-Jones

#Differences #Taught #Whiskey

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.
-- Compton Mackenzie

#Anniversary #World #Whiskey

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

#Prayer #Whiskey #Halls

Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery-I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.
-- Davy Crockett

#Moving #Fuel #Whiskey

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.
-- Donald Barthelme

#Wine #Class #Whiskey

I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Believe #Records #Whiskey

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.
-- Ed McMahon

#Drunk #Ruling The World #Whiskey

Knowing he [Bob Serber] was going to the [first atom bomb] test, I asked him how he planned to deal with the danger of rattlesnakes. He said, 'I'll take along a bottle of whiskey.' … I ended by asking, 'What would you do about those possibilities [of what unknown phenomena might cause a nuclear explosion to propagate in the atmosphere]?' Bob replied, 'Take a second bottle of whiskey.
-- Edward Teller

#Atmosphere #Whiskey #Atomic Bomb

We sat around and I fed them barbecue and whiskey. And pretty soon everyone started to compete with each other on the guitars. It seemed the more everyone drank and ate, the more everyone got into it.
-- Gary Allan

#Guitar #Whiskey #Feds

Vodka is a wonderful drink. You can drink so much of it without being as hung over as you would if you were drinking one of the brown liquors - the whiskeys and such. It's a great drink to go with appetizers.
-- Gary Shteyngart

#Drinking #Whiskey #Wonderful

Whisky is liquid sunshine.
-- George Bernard Shaw

#Sunshine #Liquid #Whiskey

I get whiskey bent and hell bound.
-- Hank Williams, Jr.

#Evil #Whiskey #Hell

We make our own whiskey and our own smoke, too. Ain't too many things these ole boys can't do.
-- Hank Williams, Jr.

#Boys #Whiskey #Egotism

That the American, by temperament, worked to excess, was true; work and whiskey were his stimulants; work was a form of vice; but he never cared much for money or power after he earned them.
-- Henry Adams

#Vices #Excess #Whiskey

You pretty much can't get away from bacon or whiskey in the South. Put a doughnut in it and you'd be good to go.
-- Hillary Scott

#Whiskey #Get Away #Be Good

Would you like a whiskey?' I say. 'I've got some.' (That's original. I bet nobody's ever thought of that way of bridging the gap before.)
-- Jean Rhys

#Gaps #Way #Whiskey

Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold.
-- Jerry Vale

#Drinking #Whiskey #Cold

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

#Might #Mcclellan #Whiskey

I learned you can't drink whiskey and play golf.
-- John Daly

#Golf #Play #Whiskey

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

#Dog #Bottles #Whiskey

Chris Hillman (of the Byrds) recounts...'What happened to the Buffulo Springfield at the Whisky was similar to what happened to us at Ciro's...everybody wanted to be there. It became the place to be...a great gig.'
-- Johnny Rogan

#Gigs #Whiskey #Whisky

He had a habit of remarking to bartenders that he didn't see any sense in mixing whiskey with water since the whiskey was already wet.
-- Joseph Mitchell

#Water #Mixing #Whiskey

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.
-- Kenneth Rexroth

#Horse #Cards #Whiskey

I love whiskey and haggis. I can't get enough of either.
-- Kevin McKidd

#Whiskey #Enough

God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world.
-- Kinky Friedman

#World #Whiskey

Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
-- Langston Hughes

#Beer #Likes #Whiskey

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this - that ain't my title.
-- Layne Staley

#Dope #Titles #Whiskey

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.
-- Lewis Nordan

#Happy Day #Whiskey #Sad Day

I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it's strictly sherry.
-- Libba Bray

#Whiskey #Drink #Sherry

Hormones were as potent as whiskey, and twice as sneaky.
-- Linda Howard

#Whiskey #Sneaky #Hormones

Whiskey has killed more men than bullets, but most men would rather be full of whiskey than bullets.
-- Logan Pearsall Smith

#Men #Bullets #Whiskey

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

The Irish sometimes make and keep a vow against whiskey; these vows are usually limited to a short time.
-- Maria Edgeworth

#Drinking #Whiskey #Sometimes

Did the Warwickshire militia, who were chiefly artisans, teach the Irish to drink beer, or did they learn from the Irish how to drink whiskey?
-- Maria Edgeworth

#Beer #Whiskey #Drink

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
-- Mark Twain

#Alcohol #Too Much #Whiskey

Whisky making is an act of cooperation between the blessings of nature and the wisdom of man.
-- Masataka Taketsuru

#Men #Blessing #Whiskey

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

#Sports #Milk #Whiskey

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

#Drinking #Funny Drinking #Whiskey

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.
-- Robert E. Lee

#Drinking #Alcohol #Whiskey

The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me.
-- Rocko

#Giants #Bottles #Whiskey

Son, if you can't take their money, drink their whiskey, screw their women, and then vote against 'em, you don't deserve to be here.
-- Sam Rayburn

#Son #Ems #Whiskey

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
-- Sam Snead

#Golf #Dimes #Whiskey

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.
-- Sean O Faolain

#Writing #Stories #Whiskey

I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure.
-- Sebastian Bach

#Whiskey #Drink #Used

Whiskey claims to itself alone the exclusive office of sot-making.
-- Thomas Jefferson

#Office #Whiskey #Claims

It's Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.
-- Tom T. Hall

#Horse #Alcohol #Whiskey

I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!
-- Tommy Cooper

#Scotch #Three #Whiskey

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

#Waste #Whiskey #Good Times

The one conclusion I have reached is that whiskey is a great leveler. You might be a hotshot advertising executive or a lowly foundry worker, but if you cannot hold your drink, you are just a drunkard.
-- Vikas Swarup

#Might #Whiskey #Advertising

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 #Whiskey

I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)
-- Westbrook Pegler

#Media #Fifty #Whiskey

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 #Whiskey

Stop your nonsense and drink your whiskey!
-- Zachary Taylor

#Whiskey #Drink #Nonsense

Whiskey don't make liars it just makes fools.
-- James McMurtry

#Liars #Fool #Whiskey

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 #Whiskey

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it's cynicism.
-- Paul Simon

#Vices #Today #Whiskey

I usually keep a bottle of whiskey. I'm not a big drinker, but I feel like it's important to have.
-- Rebecca Ward

#Important #Bottles #Whiskey

Shania Twain ... has done more for country and western than heartbreak and whiskey combined.
-- Rex Murphy

#Country #Done #Whiskey

Trusting the government with money creation is like trusting a drunk with a whiskey factory.
-- Doug Casey

#Government #Drunk #Whiskey

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

#Age #Whiskey #Whisky