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My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.
Sep 17, 2025
Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
The proper drinking of Scotch whisky is more than indulgence: it is a toast to civilization, a tribute to the continuity of culture, a manifesto of man's determination to use the resources of nature to refresh mind and body and enjoy to the full the senses with which he has been endowed.
Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.
Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whiskey, and a dog to eat the rare steak.
If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly against it. But, if when you say 'whiskey' you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine... the drink that enables a man to magnify his joy... then I am certainly for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.
Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.
I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night
Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow
Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
I like my whisky old and my women young.
Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.
Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals.
They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
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.
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.
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
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.
I went on a diet, swore off drinking and heavy eating, and in fourteen days I had lost exactly two weeks.
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?
Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to the lack of alcohol.
I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.
What contemptible scoundrel has stolen the cork to my lunch?
It's like gambling somehow. You go out for a night of drinking and you don't know where your going to end up the next day. It could work out good or it could be disastrous. It's like the throw of the dice.
I drink to make other people interesting.
Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.
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.
When you stop drinking, you have to deal with this marvelous personality that started you drinking in the first place.
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
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!
Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
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 feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
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.
To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!
Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
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.
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.