Quotes of Liquor - somelinesforyou

“ Call things by their right names - Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation. ”

- Robert Hall

“ Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain, With grammar, and nonsense, and learning, Good liquor, I stoutly maintain, Gives genius a better discerning. ”

- Oliver Goldsmith

“ There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question. ”

- George Eliot

“ The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams. ”

- Thomas Love Peacock

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

- H. L. Mencken

“ I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record. ”

- Dylan Thomas

“ Claret is the liquor for boys; port for men; but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Yoga and alcohol may seem to be on polar opposites of the health spectrum, but a new health craze encourages practitioners to have their beer and drink it, too. The classes are often hosted in breweries and are introducing new audiences to yoga. By pairing booze and bending, beer yoga appeals to those who might not be interested in the more typical structure of a yoga class… ”

- Unknown

“ Pure water is the best of gifts that man to man can bring, But who am I that I should have the best of anything? Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free, Whisky, or wine, or even beer is good enough for me. ”

- Unknown

“ Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder! ”

- Unknown

“ Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye. ”

- Miss Piggy

“ Gin was mother's milk to her. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky. ”

- William Faulkner

“ Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit! ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ In dog beers, I've only had one. ”

- Unknown

“ Whisky drowns some troubles and floats a lot more. ”

- Robert C. Edwards

“ An ounce of breast milk is even more potent than the finest tequila. ”

- Tori Amos

“ Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. ”

- Donald Downes

“ They who drink beer will think beer. ”

- Washington Irving

“ Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ 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. ”

- Frank Zappa

“ No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ I like my whisky old and my women young. ”

- Errol Flynn

“ I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. ”

- Hugo Black

“ He could dismiss several schools of philosophy by shifting slightly in his chair or toting his whisky glass. ”

- Dylan Moran

“ I dropped what I was carrying. I went straight to the alcohol section and got myself a bottle of vodka, a bottle of vermouth and went back and made myself a Martini...or two. ”

- Daniel Craig

“ I'll tell you the truth, when I first became homeless, I liked the freedom. So many people like it out there, not paying rent and are free to use drugs. Some people choose to stay out there. ”

- David Davis

“ I do like beer, but lately I've started drinking non-alcoholic beer and I like the taste of it and I don't get the alcohol, so that's a good alternative also. ”

- Mike Ditka
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