Whiskey Quotes
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Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape (Whiskey Quotes)
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, if the women don’t get you then the whiskey must (Whiskey Quotes)
It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away (Whiskey Quotes)
She spilled whiskey on her shirt, she gon have to get it cleaned. She been going way to hard, someone has to intervene (Whiskey Quotes)
There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn’t fool with booze until he’s fifty; then he’s a damn fool if he doesn’t (Whiskey Quotes)
As a cure for worrying, work is far better than whiskey. I always found that, if I began to worry, the best thing I could do was focus upon doing something useful and then work very hard at it. Soon, I would forget what was troubling me (Whiskey Quotes)
When I got him out he was near froze solid and shivering. He was shaking so hard that I wasted half a glass of whiskey trying to aim it for his mouth. Must have got enough of it into him, though, since it did seem to bring him back to life (Whiskey Quotes)
There’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I pour whiskey on him and inhale cigarette smoke and the whores and the bartenders and the grocery clerks never know that he’s in there (Whiskey Quotes)
I’ve got friends in low places, where the whiskey drowns and the beer chases my blues away (Whiskey Quotes)
Come on boys, you must listen unto me, lay off the whiskey and let that cocaine be (Whiskey Quotes)
It never takes longer than a few minutes, when they get together, for everyone to revert to the state of nature, like a party marooned by a shipwreck. That’s what a family is. Also the storm at sea, the ship, and the unknown shore. And the hats and the whiskey stills that you make out of bamboo and coconuts. And the fire that you light to keep away the beasts (Whiskey Quotes)
Sometimes I’d wake up at two or three in the morning and not be able to fall asleep again. I’d get out of bed, go to the kitchen, and pour myself a whiskey. glass in hand, I’d look down at the darkened cemetary across teh way and the headlights of the cars on the road. the moments of time linking night and dawn were long and dark. if I could cry, it might make things easier. but what would I cry over? I was too self (Whiskey Quotes)
It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it (Whiskey Quotes)
The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there (Whiskey Quotes)
We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment (Whiskey Quotes)
We partied with the royal rich people, and we felt like rock stars. We drank all the whiskey in the place (Whiskey Quotes)
Americans are big boys. You can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hour over a bottle of whiskey and be a nice guy (Whiskey Quotes)
I used to like whiskey. But it’s been a long time since I’ve been drunk (Whiskey Quotes)
Whiskey and beer are all right in their place, but their place is in hell. The saloon hasn’t one leg to stand on (Whiskey Quotes)
Each of his phrases was rather like a little ancient island, inundated by a miniature sea of whiskey (Whiskey Quotes)
A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer (Whiskey Quotes)
So long as the presence of death lurks with anyone who goes through the simple act of swallowing, I will make mine whiskey (Whiskey Quotes)
I’m a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four (Whiskey Quotes)
Ninety percent I’ll spend on good times, women and Irish Whiskey. The other ten percent I’ll probably waste (Whiskey Quotes)
Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it’s true about poems, too (Whiskey Quotes)
Hey! Shouts Camel. There ain’t no woman in the world worth two bottles of whiskey! (Whiskey Quotes)
It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader’s spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower (Whiskey Quotes)
Boston: Clear out eight hundred thousand people and preserve it as a museum piece. New York: Prison towers and modern posters for soap and whiskey. Pittsburgh: Abandon it (Whiskey Quotes)
A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell if the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection (Whiskey Quotes)
There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day (Whiskey Quotes)