If you can’t drink a lobbyist’s whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don’t belong in politics. Molly Ivins (1944-2007), newspaper columnist
I said, ‘What is different about what I’m doing now from what I’ve been doing for years as a distiller?’ But the PR people said we were losing out because everyone else had one, so I finally gave in. Four…
The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By dint of careful application, I learned to like it. Sir Winston Churchill, speaking of his early life in India and South Africa
We have 17 kinds of bourbon behind the bar. We’ll even give you the first one on the house. Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins) to Raylan Givens (Timothy Olyphant), “Justified”
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me. Hunter S. Thompson, gonzo journalist and Louisville, Ky., native
The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. P.J. O’Rourke, journalist, writer and humorist
