Whiskey Drinking Quotes

Call him drunken Ira Hayes, he won't answer any more. Not the whiskey drinking Indian, nor the Marine that went to war.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.

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

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.

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

Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

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.

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.

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

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?

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!

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

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

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

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.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.