Wordgrove Post & Review

Quoted In The Grove: whiskey

Drink washes off the daub and discovers the man.
~Thomas Fuller

Know thyself, especially thyself after a couple of drinks.
~Robert Brault

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.
~Mignon McLaughlin

EndQuote:
Here’s to conscience. May it wake up to hear us toast it, and then go to sleep again.
~Wilbur D Nesbit

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Prewritten Prompt for 04/18: cowboy

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KEYHOLE: A frequent test for sobriety.
~Charles Wayland Towne

ALCOHOL: A liquid good for preserving almost everything except secrets.
~Charles Wayland Towne

WHISKY: Trouble put up in liquid form.
~Charles Wayland Towne

Mixologist, n. person who complicates pouring alcohol.
~Blind Date

Drinkard — a fellow who drinks a lot but never seems to get drunk.
~Hal Borland

Alcoholic: anybody who drinks more than I do.
~W C Fields

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I’m not an alcoholic. Alcoholics go to meetings. I’m a drunk. We go to parties.
~Internet meme

I don’t always drink peppermint schnapps — but when I do, I drink it at work.
~Internet meme

Take life with a grain of salt, a slice of lime, and a shot of tequila.
~Internet meme

I don’t get drunk — I get awesome.
~Internet meme

Vodka is just awesome water.
~Internet meme

A drunkard is like a whiskey-bottle, all neck and belly and no head.
~Austin O’Malley

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Posted From The Grove

Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better.
~Langston Hughes

I’m a beer man. I tried to drink whiskey and Scotch but I don’t get it. It smells like a girl who didn’t shower and just splashed a lot of perfume on.
~Mads Mikkelsen

I am going to add a cold beer. Why not a bottle of whiskey? Because my story is cheap and cannot afford such props. Goddamn, even my imagination is not wealthy enough to order a bottle of Jack!
~Plamen Chetelyazov

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

Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 BC
~W C Fields

Here’s to a long life and a merry one
A quick death and an easy one
A pretty girl and an honest one
A cold beer and another one!
~Author unknown

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They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don’t win many ball games.
~Casey Stengel

When it’s third and ten, you can take the milk drinkers and I’ll take the whiskey drinkers every time.
~Max McGee

Tell me what brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send
a barrel of it to my other generals.
~Abraham Lincoln

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…grab another cocktail and forget it for the moment. Am I preaching? I’m sorry, but I feel badly when I see people clawing at the bars of a cage whose door is standing open.
~Ruth Stout

You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey – the sacred incense of the drinking man.

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The Whisky Water Trick (2:11) cheap corn
https://vimeo.com/35150174

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~Eric Kridle: Whiskey Slap (1:51) in slo-mo, staged
https://vimeo.com/29128670

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~Whiskey Advocate: The Difference Between Bourbon and Tennessee Whiskey (4:57)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kbPoNCMouE

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Teddy, I’m a Scotch drinker, you know that. I just have the occasional brandy when I’m not drinking.
~Jim Naboth

Harris, I am not well; pray get me a glass of brandy.
~George IV

I contented myself with whiskey, for medicinal purposes. It helped numb my various aches and pains. Not that the alcohol actually reduced the pain, it just gave the pain a life of its own, apart from mine.
~Haruki Murakami

Suggested remedy for the common cold: A good gulp of whiskey at bedtime – it’s not very scientific, but it helps.
~Alexander Fleming

Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won’t cure a cold.

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To get over the guilt of drinking, take your brandy in milk. This way, it becomes medicinal.
~Catherine Cookson

Never cry over spilt milk. It could’ve been whiskey.
~Pappy Maverick

What whiskey will not cure, there is no cure for.
~Irish Proverb

When asked for his hangover cure, ‘I take the juice of two bottles of whisky.’
~Dean Martin

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As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.
~Don Marquis

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VIDEO:

Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.
~Mark Twain

Courage is a vitamin best swallowed with whiskey.
~Jarod Kintz

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.
~Nguyen Cao Ky

The federal government cannot maintain a budget surplus any more than an alcoholic can leave a fresh bottle of whiskey untouched in the cupboard.
~Ron Paul

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
~P J O’Rourke

Keep close count of your nickels and dimes, stay away from whiskey, and never concede a putt.
~Sam Snead

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Congress allows lemonade to the members and has it charged under the head of stationery – I move also that whiskey be allowed under the item of fuel.
~Davy Crockett

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.
~Brian Redman

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~Dust: The Universe of Scotch and Haagen Dazs (9:34) …given the choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SztOTseYnSs

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~Omeleto: Last Request (16:06) father knows best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8NPx_fRGYE

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~Jameson First Shot: The Mundane Goddess (10:24) with Uma Thurman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujqoQ6V_kl0

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

Hormones were as potent as whiskey,
and twice as sneaky.
~Linda Howard

I would put you out of mind if I were wise
But wisdom has no power over brandy eyes.
~Joni Mitchell

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Promise me one thing: don’t take me home until I’m drunk — very drunk indeed.
~Holly Golightly, in Breakfast At Tiffanys

The drunk mind speaks the sober heart.
~Author unknown

So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he had achieved this kindled state of oneness with all the world, which is the end of youth’s most passionate desire.
~D H Lawrence

I must not mix champage, whiskey, and gin. (Repeated fifty times to fill column.)
~Westbrook Pegler

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MUSIC:

It (a singer’s voice) sounds as if it was aged in a whiskey cask, cured in an Ozarks smokehouse, dropped down a stone well, pulled out damp, and kept moist in the palm of a wicked woman’s hand.
~Michael Perry

I smoke two cartons of unfiltered cigs and down a bottle of American rye whiskey as a warm up, generally. Then swallow beach sand and general aggregate to get some texture in the voice, followed by a stick of butter to smooth it all out. This works for me, but may not be for everyone.
~Roger Craig Smith

Her voice was rich and dark like good brandy, yet somehow lively too, like the very best champagne.
~George Garrett

It (a singer’s voice) sounds as if it was aged in a whiskey cask, cured in an Ozarks smokehouse, dropped down a stone well, pulled out damp, and kept moist in the palm of a wicked woman’s hand.
~Michael Perry

I smoke two cartons of unfiltered cigs and down a bottle of American rye whiskey as a warm up, generally. Then swallow beach sand and general aggregate to get some texture in the voice, followed by a stick of butter to smooth it all out. This works for me, but may not be for everyone.
~Roger Craig Smith

Her voice was rich and dark like good brandy, yet somehow lively too, like the very best champagne.
~George Garrett

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Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijuana, and will expire on cocaine.
~Artie Shaw

It really puzzles me to see marijuana connected with narcotics dope and all of that stuff. It is a thousand times better than whiskey. It is an assistant and a friend.
~Louis Armstrong

The light music of whisky falling into glasses made an agreeable interlude.
~James Joyce

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~Brad Paisley: Whiskey Lullaby – feat. Alison Krauss (6:43) milking for tears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZbN_nmxAGk

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~Dave Matthews: Rye Whiskey (3:42) a classic gets classic treatment
https://vimeo.com/6137017

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~Echo Tape: Whiskey Bar (3:50) rock’n roll
https://vimeo.com/104054790

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~Chris Stapleton’s Tennessee Whiskey

~Chris Stapleton & Justin Timberlake: (3:38) in concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nhtkt82cvyY

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~John Speed: (4:10) living room concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRged5ZCKW8

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~Metallica: Whiskey In The Jar (4:44) about as tame as you’d expect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsrvmNtWU4E

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Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.
~Benjamin Franklin

Some of you say that religion makes people happy, so does whisky.
~Clarence Darrow

Religion is like an ice cold whiskey on a hot day.
~Ernest Hemingway

Sometimes the Bible in the hand of one man is worse than a whiskey bottle in the hand of another.
~Harper Lee

There’s no trouble in this world so serious that it can’t be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.
~Elizabeth Gilbert

It ain’t that you get religion. Religion gets you and then milks you dry. Won’t let you drink a little whiskey. Won’t let you make no fat-assed girls grin and giggle. Won’t let you do a damn thing except work for what you’ll get in the hearafter. I live in the here and now.
~Dorothy Allison

Which would you part with first — your tobacco, your whiskey, or your religion?
~Brigham Young

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Oh, and how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course and I forgot how to drive?
~The Simpsons

While I can’t walk on water, I can certainly wobble on whisky.
~Ashwin Sanghi

In those days the best painkiller was ice. It wasn’t addictive and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it.
~George Burns

I’m on a whisky diet. I’ve lost three days already.
~Tommy Cooper

It takes me five minutes to walk to the pub but twenty minutes to walk home. The difference is staggering.
~Author unknown

To the question, “When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?” the obvious answer seemed to be, “When the gin gave out.”
~Francis Chichester

Love makes the world go round? Not at all. Whiskey makes it go round twice as fast.
~Compton Mackenzie

A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy.
~Noel Coward

The wages of gin is debt.
~Ethel Mumford

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Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and furthermore always carry a small snake.
~W C Fields

I don’t drink anymore, on the other hand I don’t drink any less either.
~W C Fields

Scotch needs water like a fish needs a bicycle.
~W C Fields

I only drink to steady my nerves… sometimes I’m so steady I don’t move for months.
~W C Fields

A dog will run up and lick your hand. No bottle will do that. If the whiskey ever starts licking your hand, I would advise you lay off it for a while, say five or ten minutes.
~W C Fields

Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
~W C Fields

The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
~W C Fields

Thou shalt not kill anything less than a fifth.
~W C Fields

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Barbed Angel
© David Lorenz Winston

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Jules says there are three things that make you a grown-up: an eight-piece set of matching dishes; gin, vodka and whiskey in the house; and making your bed every morning. I disagree with her. I think you’re officially a grown-up when you’ve got another half. When you don’t have to live in fear of other couples. When you don’t have to feel you’re not good enough.
~Jane Green

Like my old mentor would always say, Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice and I’ll be dead.” Okay, she wasn’t a good poet, but that lady could handle her whiskey.
~John Zakour

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..
~Paula Wall

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You can’t find the answers on the bottom of a whiskey glass, but if you look hard enough you’ll forget the questions.
~George Patterson

Memory impairment: the free prize at the bottom of every vodka bottle. ~Big Bang Theory

The first thing in the human personality that dissolves in alcohol is dignity.
~Author unknown

If drinking is interfering with your work, you’re probably a heavy drinker. If work is interfering with your drinking, you’re probably an alcoholic.
~Author unknown

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Brandy, which is fallen and accursed wine, as devils are fallen and accursed angels.
~Fitz James O’Brien

It’s like an angel crying on your tongue.
~Bruno Heller & Tom Szentgyorgyi

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no man who drank or smoked could ever come nearer to me than the telephone. I’d say, I won’t let you – you nicotine-soaked, beer-besmeared, whiskey-greased, red-eyed devil – talk to me face to face.
~Carrie Nation

I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn’t come to the emergency room with you, men who left on Christmas Eve. Men who slammed the security gates, who made you love them and then changed their minds.
~Janet Fitch

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Our government land costs one dollar and twenty-five cents an acre, and good whiskey two dollars a bottle. How many men die landless who during their lives have swallowed whole townships — trees and all? ~Author unknown (1878 dollars)

There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.
~Lewis Nordan

The hardest thing I ever did was get sober. I was drinking two and a half bottles of whiskey a day and taking 40 Vicodin. If I had known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself.
~David Feherty

Quart of whiskey a day for months working hard on a long poem. Wife hiding bottles, myself hiding bottles. Murderous and suicidal. Many hospitalizations, many alibis.
~James Taylor

Ya think that the whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety – now that is the good stuff!
~Steven Tyler

My life was once whiskey, tears and cigarettes… now it’s snot, tears and a color of poop. Bliss. I do miss the whiskey, though.
~Pink

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@Writers Platform

He liked to read with the silence and the golden color of the whiskey as his companions. He liked food, people, talk, but reading was an inexhaustible pleasure. What the joys of music were to others, words on a page were to him.
~James Salter

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
~H L Mencken

Deprive him [the habitual reader] of printed matter and he grows nervous, moody and restless; then, like the alcoholic bereft of brandy who will drink shellac or methylated spirit, he will make do with the advertisements of a paper five years old; he will make do with a telephone directory.
~W Somerset Maugham

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Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.
~Sean O Faolain

A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
~Roy Blount, Jr

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.
~Ariel Gore

A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers has an intoxicating savor.
~Hugh Walpole

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.
~Craig Ferguson

If you’re going to be a writer you should sit down and write in the morning, and keep it up all day, every day. Bukowski]’d have a bottle of whiskey with him to wake up with, and that’s what he believed. That’s the way you became a writer: by writing. When you weren’t writing, you weren’t a writer.
~Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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Glass Table:

~Christone @Wordgrove Library

Desiderata

Written by Max Ehrmann (American writer, poet, attorney), Desiderata (‘things desired’) is folk wisdom bordering on scripture, and has earned its place in that pantheon to be revived in times of human trial. The full transcript is available at Christone’s Library in Wordgrove, but here, now, this audio version (script included) as recorded by its author. A return engagement.
~the editor

Max Ehrmann: Desiderata (4:46)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaVaF6TkSUU

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Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.
~Robertson Davies

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

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.
~Brandi Carlile

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.
~Mignon McLaughlin

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Half the thirst for alcohol that exists in the world exists simply because alcohol acts as a temporary anæsthetic and effacer to all these morbid feelings that never ought to be in a human being at all. ~William James

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.
~Mark Twain

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Prewritten Prompt: whiskey

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Black coffee’s a lot like whiskey, you know? All devil and no trimmin’s. Always liked my sins pure and take it as it comes.
~Jack Ketchum

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.
~Mark Twain

Some of us look for the Way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same Way and it leads nowhither.
~W Somerset Maugham

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THE EXERCISE:

Dual Doggerels Dueling

Map To From

Taste a bit to toast the best of
Circumscribed test, none of the rest of
Mounting the wave riding the crest of
Touching the sky, pride in the success of

Health by abstinence
Sterility in romance
Nothing by happenstance
Wealth or in prominence

Forego uproar with scandalous women
Barrels of whiskey enough for swimmin’ in
Yet wondering about life, the if and why
If I passed that test while life passed me by

Health by abstinence
Sterility in romance
Nothing by happenstance
Wealth or in prominence

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Sneaks

Among the scraps, the sunken trash and broken glass
The squish of soggy mud and other creatures’ crap
The carp, a bottom feeding fish
Boney ‘n gamey ‘n not a fav’rite dish
But serve it with whiskey
Where we fish and get frisky
Indiscrete woman, most fun kind of wife
Lovin’ our secrets ‘n lovin’ life

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In the Spell Of

Bourbon and scotch whisky
will bake you and make you
act naughty and frisky
Irish and rye whiskey
will inspire then mire you
in affairs fraughty and riskey

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tuned in blue

whisky the best key
for bellowing melody
whiskey the worst key
to marriage and harmony
spare us the misery
the tin-eared batchelor’s plea
pour us another one
twice that much as t’other one

she said give up this bar glass
if i loved her, she had to ask
so give us a song, lass
break hearts then again, lass
give this up or give her a pass
decision time ‘n changin’ lanes
she leaves at nine, damn champagne
can’t remember if plane or train

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Night Out

Fine brandies for the dandies
Grain whiskies for comraderie
But make it gin if you want sin
If you really want in
Lose at cards fail at darts
Come to naught with the tarts

Closin’ time is repentin’ time
Prime of life, ain’t this a crime
But wrap that up, a pint to go
(s’already t’morrow, y’know)
Click on Repeat get a replay
Same fax and format, different day

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5s and 7s

cloud euphoria
spent exhaustion pained awake
caffeinated spunk
blurred lens of whiskey
ingredients, bake one day

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jukebox and whisky
Saturday night in cow town
and she just walked in

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…also, I’m pregnant
extra heartbeats of silence
thank god for whisky

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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.
~William Faulkner

It is true that whisky improves with age. The older I get, the more I like it.
~Robert Black

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Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.
~Mark Twain

Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
~Ernest Hemingway

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Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.
~Kenneth Rexroth

It’s Faster horses, Younger women, Older whiskey and More money.
~Tom T Hall

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I sat down to my supper, twas a bottle of red whiskey.
~Jerry Garcia

The bad taste of alcohol is there to clue in your body that you shouldn’t drink it. Luckily I don’t fall for “appeal to nature” fallacies.
~Corey Mohler

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Next to a drunkard I hate a teetotaller.
~Charles Searle

You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.
~Bill Murray

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I’m a simple man. All I want is enough sleep for two normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four.
~Joel Rosenberg

Beneath the moons’ shadowscape, wisdom, women, whiskey and you are a dangerous and provocative combination…
~Virginia Alison

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Tea is so tame. A cocktail is lots more naughty.
~Richard Florance

When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, with a red hat which doesn’t go and doesn’t suit me. And I shall spend my pension on brandy and summer gloves, and satin sandals, and say we’ve no money for butter.
~Jenny Joseph

Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society… We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age.
~Don Marquis

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Do you feel the golden, copper-coloured light it kindles in you? I like walking through the city of an evening in the warmth of gin.
~Albert Camus

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Quotes harvested from:
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