A Curated Collection of Quotes about Whisky (for which you can thank me in whisky)

"Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whisky is barely enough."
Mark Twain


"The light music of whisky falling into a glass - an agreeable interlude."
James Joyce


"Always carry a large flagon of whisky in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake."
W. C. Fields


"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
Humphrey Bogart's last words


"Whisky is liquid sunshine."
George Bernard Shaw


"The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it." 
Sir Winston Churchill


"There are two things a Highlander likes naked, and one of them is malt whisky."
Scottish Proverb


"May the enemies of Ireland never eat bread nor drink whisky, but be tormented with itching without the benefit of scratching."
Irish toast


"Whisky, drink divine!
Why should drivelers bore us
With the praise of wine
While we've thee before us?"
Joseph O'Leary


"If you mean whiskey, the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the home, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if you mean that evil drink that topples Christian men and women from the pinnacles of righteous and gracious living into the bottomless pits of degradation, shame, despair, helplessness, and hopelessness, then, my friend, I am opposed to it with every fiber of my being. However, if by whiskey you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine, the elixir of life, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a song in their hearts and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you mean Christmas cheer, the stimulating sip that puts a little spring in the step of an elderly gentleman on a frosty morning; if you mean that drink that enables man to magnify his joy, and to forget life's great tragedies and heartbreaks and sorrow; if you mean that drink the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars each year, that provides tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our pitifully aged and infirm, to build the finest highways, hospitals, universities, and community colleges in this nation, then my friend, I am absolutely, unequivocally in favor of it. This is my position, and as always, I refuse to be compromised on matters of principle."

Address to the legislature by a Mississippi state senator, 1958, "Whisky Speech"

"I just had nineteen shots of whisky. I think that's a record."

Dylan Thomas' last words