Quotes on Whisky

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

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

Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.

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

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

The anthropologist must relinquish his comfortable position in the long chair on the veranda of the missionary compound, Government station, or planter's bungalow, where, armed with pencil and notebook and at times with a whisky and soda, he has been accustomed to collect statements from informants.... He must go out into the villages, and see the natives at work in gardens, on the beach, in the jungle; he must sail with them to distant sandbanks and to foreign tribes.

Great fury, like great whisky, requires long fermentation.

The light music of whiskey falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.

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.

How do men act on a sinking ship? Do they hold each other? Do they pass around the whisky? Do they cry?

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

Maybe there is no Heaven. Or maybe this is all pure gibberish - a product of the demented imagination of a lazy drunken hillbilly with a heart full of hate who has found a way to live out where the real winds blow - to sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whisky, and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested... Res ipsa loquitur. Let the good times roll.