Quotes about Whiskey
Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.
- Mary Baker Eddy
In truth they did not look like men who might have whiskey they hadnt drunk.
- Cormac McCarthy
The drunk's concern ain't that he's goin to die from drinkin - which he is. It's that he's goin to run out of whiskey fore he gets a chance to do it.
- Cormac McCarthy
When men don't have God, they need substitutes. To my way of thinking, whiskey is a poor substitute—but many men depend upon it. But what I am angry about is that they didn't obey my orders.
- Janette Oke
As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
- Mark Twain
I was intrigued by old Frank, with his books and whiskey breath and the hint of hard-earned knowledge behind the hooded eyes.
- Barack Obama
I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't have a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey.
- Andrew Jackson
Tonight the special was chicken pot pie, but most of the regulars were concentrating on whiskey.
- Alice Hoffman
Take whiskey. Why do some people chose Jack Daniel's, while others choose Grand Dad or Taylor? Have they tried all three and compared the taste? Don't make me laugh. The reality is that these three brands have different images which appeal to different kinds of people. It isn't the whiskey they choose, it's the image. The brand image is 90 per cent of what the distiller has to sell.
- David Ogilvy
Take whiskey. Why do some people chose Jack Daniel's, while others choose Grand Dad or Taylor? Have they tried all three and compared the taste? Don't make me laugh. The reality is that these three brands have different images which appeal to different kinds of people. It isn't the whiskey they choose, it's the image. The brand image is 90 per cent of what the distiller has to sell. Researchers
- David Ogilvy
The true pioneer of civilization is not the newspaper, not religion, not the railroad - but whiskey!
- Mark Twain