Whiskey Quotes

Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think.

I’m a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch, but I don’t get it. It smells like a girl who didn’t shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.

There ain’t no justice, laws of nature rule this land. Better hide your horses, bury your whiskey.

I learned you can’t drink whiskey and play golf.

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

I wish to live to 150 years old, but the day I die, I wish it to be with a cigarette in one hand and a glass of whiskey in the other.

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.

I drink to make other people interesting.

I was glad to see other blues guitarists like Albert King have crossover successes like me. We played in the same places like the Whisky and the Filmore. When Albert made his guitar cry, he could cut you so deep!

Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it’s time to drink.

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

I’m drowning in whiskey river.

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

When a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey his children have a way of crying from hunger pains.

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

I will never, ever drink whiskey again. From now on, it’s strictly sherry.

When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life.

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

whiskey makes the heart beat faster but it sure doesn’t help the mind and isn’t it funny how you can ache just from the deadly drone of existence?

It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it.

Fuuuuuuuuuuck.” Kynan scrubbed his face. “I could use a double shot of whiskey right now.” “I’m sure Flicka keeps hard liquor behind the bar.” “Flicka?” “I don’t want to say her name.” “So you’re calling her horse names?” Ky coked a dark eyebrow. “I can’t wait to see how she reacts to Mr. Ed.

Wild Turkey whiskey and Philip Morris cigarettes are essential to the maintenance of human life!

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

Politicians and music don’t mix. It’s like whiskey and wine.

I sit here in this chair, I pour myself some whiskey, and watch my troubles vanish into the air.

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

Give me lace and whiskey, Mama’s own remedy.

Boy, a drive-through liquor store. God bless America! A place where you can drive through and buy whiskey, beer… just the thing for that drunk driver who’s constantly on the go. Cant stop now! I’ve got places to go, people to hit!

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.

Whiskey will always be a part of my life.

I look up the telephone number of Alcoholics Anonymous. Then, my hands shaking, I open the bar and drink the leftover whiskey, gin and vermouth-whatever I can lay my shaking hands on.

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.

The bottle of whiskey – the second one – was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who ‘felt just as good on nothing at all.

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

A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

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.

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.

I’m a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch but I don’t get it. It smells like a girl who didn’t shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.

They’re a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It’s said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they’d kill themselves. (Irish)

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

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.

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.

You know what southern women are? Whiskey in a teacup. We’re strong in the inside, but ornate on the outside.

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

I only drink wine, beer, and champagne. I’ve never had hard liquor, I’ve never had a whiskey drink in my life. I just don’t like it.

I have found that whiskey is enjoyed as a refined secret pleasure in many cities – and it appears to be popular in Pakistan, as it is all over the tropical Asian world, Muslim or non-Muslim.

So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey.

There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day.

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

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

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

I’ll tell you the truth; I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.

the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on

An appreciation of prose is learned, not instinctive. It is an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky.

I drink this [whiskey glass] and I’m just another JBL? you don’t get it, I’m not like you. I’m not JBL, I’m CM Punk! Sometimes it’s what you don’t do that makes you who you are.

Hormones were as potent as whiskey, and twice as sneaky.

It’s a battered old suitcase to a hotel someplace, and a wound that will never heal. No prima donna, the perfume is on an old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey. Goodnight to the street sweepers, the night watchmen flame keepers and goodnight, Matilda, too.

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

I don’t eat shellfish. I drink wine moderately and have one whiskey every evening before dinner.

Crooked cards and straight whiskey, Slow horses and fast women.

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

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety – now that is the good stuff!

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.

Champagne’s funny stuff. I’m used to whiskey. Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne’s a heavy mist before my eyes.

…I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn’t come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.

Inspiring bold JohnBarleycorn! What dangers thou canst make us scorn! Wi’ usquebae, we’ll face the devil!

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.

Fortunately, an extremely sexy, pixie-voiced blond named Ronnie Harran, who booked the Whisky, saw us…She had an ear for talent…the Whisky was finally a gig we could be proud of.

A loss of any kind is horrible. Not because it takes away, but because it makes you believe- in newspapers, in tomatoes, in empty whiskey bottles.

Yes, it’s true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother’s home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn’t do it

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

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

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.

For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing – some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey – shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate.

Between his eyes, there were four lines, the marks of such misery as children should never feel. He spoke with that wonderful whisky voice that so many Spanish children have, and he was a tough and entire little boy.

Someone told me once that blues is like whiskey. They keep whiskey in the barrel for so many years, and then they talk about how well it’s aged. But I don’t think that goes for him. I think this young man has just stepped in there sayin’, ‘I’m gonna prove you all wrong.’ I think he’s like a watermelon, man. He’s ripe.

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

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

You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey – the sacred incense of the drinking man.

I drink a lot of everything; beer while watching football. I have a taste for whiskey, but Jack Daniels and ginger is about as fancy as it gets with me.

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.

For whatever reason, I encounter Canadian whiskey at hunting camps way more often than I do in restaurants, bars, or homes. Could be the lower price. Could be the mellow character, which lends itself to long hours of fireside sipping. Or it could just be tradition.

[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine.

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

Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it’s true about poems, too.

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.

New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it.

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

After the week at the Fillmore we flew down to L.A. to hang out and pick up whatever gigs we could. We did a gig in Santa Barbara on July 1st and then the next night we opened for Sam & Dave at the Whisky.

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

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

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.’

Y’all drinking whiskey is probably a gregarious act. When you’re not an alcoholic it’s pretty fun to drink whiskey. But when you are it’s a very solo ritual. It’s not gregarious at all. But vice has always informed country music and all music.

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

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

I love to sing, and I love to drink scotch. Most people would rather hear me drink scotch.

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

There were years when I was a beer and tequila guy, then I got real fat. And then I found that you could actually go on a diet and drink scotch. Then I got hooked on scotch, and if you get hooked on scotch, then everything else just tastes wrong.

I take the juice of two bottles of whisky.

I’ve got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away.

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.

We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place.

In those days the best painkiller was ice; it wasn’t addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.

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.

Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain’t no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey!

Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?

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.

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.

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

Yes, it’s true I once knocked out a horse. It was at a fiesta in my mother’s home town of Guarare. Someone bet me a bottle of whiskey that I couldn’t do it.

Health – what my friends are always drinking to before they fall down.

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don’t have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

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

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

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

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

The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.

The giant imaginary bottle of whiskey is with me.

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

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

My dad was a real working musician in the late ’70s and early ’80s. He had a band that was signed to Elektra/Asylum and they would perform at like Madame Wong’s and Whiskey A Go Go all the time.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

If I’d just paid money to watch a soccer game, I’d want to kill someone too (once the buzz wore off and I realized where I was, because the only thing that would make me pay to watch a soccer game is perhaps a half gallon of whiskey).

Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

For God’s sake bring me a large Scotch. What a bloody awful country.

Whiskey don’t make liars
it just makes fools.

Awesome! I’d just bullied Jesus into doing a shot with me. Nobody would ever believe it, but I didn’t care. We ordered the insanely expensive stuff, seventy-five dollars for a 1.75-ounce pour of premium Irish whiskey, because if you’re doing a shot with Jesus, you don’t buy him scotch.

It ain’t that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won’t let you drink a little whiskey. Won’t let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won’t let you do a damn thing except work for what you’ll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.

I feel like when I arrive at the hospital I want a glass of whiskey, I want the epidural in my back. And, I want to get hit in the face with a baseball bat…

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

I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain; it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.

It’s Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.

A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.

If you can’t drink a lobbyist’s whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don’t belong in politics.

Every article I see is dope this, junkie that, whiskey this – that ain’t my title.

I’ve been on the whisky diet – I’ve already lost three days!

You see a guy with one leg, he’s got a story. “Land mine ’69.” You see a guy with one arm, he’s got a story, too. “Snow blower, bottle of whiskey.” You see a guy with one tooth, what would the story be? “Well, uh, I like a lot of taffy.”

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

When I was a young reporter, the great vice among journalists was whiskey. Today, it’s cynicism.

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime-it’s not very scientific, but it helps.

When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let’s all get drunk and go to heaven!

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes… now it’s snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.

Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.

Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

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.

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

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.

I get whiskey bent and hell bound.

I love whiskey and haggis. I can’t get enough of either.

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.

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

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

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

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.