It's like trying to drink whisky from a bottle of wine.
From the early days of the telegraph, to be a telegrapher was a job, and there weren't many of those folks. They could recognize each other's style by their dots and dashes. They called that the "fist. " St. George, they have a fist. You taste something from St. George, even across categories - the gin, the whisky - it tastes like something from St. George. It's the same as going to a great bar: You get the soul of the person making it.
Whisky, I find, helps clarity of thought. And reduces pain. It has the additional virtue of making you drunk or, if taken in sufficient quantity, very drunk.
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
After the week at the Fillmore we flew down to L. A. to hang out and pick up whatever gigs we could. We did a gig in Santa Barbara on July 1st and then the next night we opened for Sam & Dave at the Whisky.
Cuban cigars are an acquired taste, like Scotch whisky. If you're not used to them, you'll get a headache, you'll find them much too strong. But to a cigar connoisseur, a longtime smoker, if you have a well-made, well-aged one, there is nothing like a Cuban cigar. Getting them is the ultimate mission; any cigar lover would do anything
I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.
Whisky, gambling and Ferraris are better than housework.
I'll tell you the truth; I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.
Whisky is liquid sunshine.
You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.
I've been on the whisky diet - I've already lost three days!
Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
Catnip is vodka and whisky to most cats.
I've been on a 46-year diet of olives and alcohol. The latter I consume. The former I save and use over again in more alcohol. In my lifetime, I imagine, I have consumed at least $200,000 worth of whisky.
When life hands you lemons, make whisky sours.
I enjoy hitting a batsman more than getting him out. I like to see blood on the pitch. And I've been training on whisky.
My opponent left a glass of whisky 'en prise' and I took it 'en passant'.
Haven't you learned yet that I put something more than whisky into my speeches.
Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant
