There's petty in life ameliorate than pouring a double whiskey and sitting down to relax later on a long mean solar day.

Whether you lot beverage Scotch, rye, or bourbon, you are in the company of some of the globe'south finest minds and characters. Marking Twain, Winston Churchill, and James Joyce all enjoyed a dram, and they had no reservations about speaking publicly on the field of study.

To help inspire your deeper investigation of whiskey (or your adjacent whiskey bar outing), nosotros've put together a listing of the romantic, funny, and fifty-fifty wistful things that celebrated wits, writers, politicians, and even athletes have said about their dear booze.

Scroll downward to read our favorite whiskey-related musings.

Marker Twain

In 3 words: Besuited American humorist
Thoughts on whiskey: "Too much of anything is bad, only too much proficient whiskey is barely enough."

"Give an Irishman lager for a month, and he'southward a expressionless man. An Irishman is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him."

Raymond Chandler

In three words: Novelist and screenwriter
Thoughts on whiskey: "In that location is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't every bit skillful as others."

Winston Churchill

In iii words: British Prime number Minister
Thoughts on whiskey: "The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like information technology."

Tommy Cooper

In three words: British prop comedian
Thoughts on whiskey: "I'one thousand on a whisky diet. I've lost three days already."

Tommy Cooper

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Humphrey Bogart

In three words: American actor, Casablanca
Thoughts on whiskey: His last words were, "I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."

Johnny Carson

In iii words: Belatedly Nighttime host
Thoughts on whiskey: "Happiness is having a rare steak, a bottle of whisky, and a canis familiaris to eat the rare steak."

Joel Rosenberg

In three words: American author, strategist
Thoughts on whiskey: "I'yard a simple human being. All I desire is enough sleep for ii normal men, enough whiskey for three, and enough women for four."

Joel Rosenberg

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Abraham Lincoln

In iii words: 16th U.S. president
Thoughts on whiskey: "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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Tug McGraw

In three words: MLB relief bullpen
Thoughts on whiskey: "Ninety percent I'll spend on expert times, women, and Irish gaelic Whiskey. The other 10 percent I'll probably waste."

Alexander Fleming

In three words: Scottish inventor, penicillin
Thoughts on whiskey: "A good gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime—information technology's not very scientific, merely it helps."

Alexander Fleming

Photograph: SciSource

Errol Flynn

In three words: Swashbuckling movie star
Thoughts on whiskey: "I like my whisky one-time and my women immature."

Compton MacKenzie

In 3 words: Proud Scotsman, author
Thoughts on whiskey: "Honey makes the world become circular? Not at all. Whiskey makes information technology become circular twice equally fast."

Nguyen Cao Ky

In three words: Vietnamese political leader
Thoughts on whiskey: "Americans are big boys. Yous can talk them into almost anything. Just sit with them for half an hr over a bottle of whiskey and exist a overnice guy."

Ava Gardner

In 3 words: Glamorous movie star
Thoughts on whiskey: ‎"I wish to alive to 150 years old, but the 24-hour interval I die, I wish information technology to exist with a cigarette in ane hand and a glass of whiskey in the other."

Ava Gardner

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Haruki Murakami

In three words: Japanese bestselling author
Thoughts on whiskey: "Whiskey, like a beautiful adult female, demands appreciation. Yous gaze first, then it's time to drink."

George Bernard Shaw

In 3 words: Irish playwright, Pygmalion
Thoughts on whiskey: "Whisky is liquid sunshine."

W.C. Fields

In three words: American funnyman, actor
Thoughts on whiskey: "Always bear a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always deport a small ophidian."

"Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Expiry, where is thy sting?"

Andrew Jackson

In three words: Wild 7th president
Thoughts on whiskey: "I have never in my life seen a Kentuckian who didn't take a gun, a pack of cards, and a jug of whiskey."

William Faulkner

In three words: Celebrated Southern author
Thoughts on whiskey: "My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are newspaper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky."

James Joyce

In three words: Dubliners andUlysses
Thoughts on whiskey: "The light music of whiskey falling into a glass—an agreeable interlude."

James Joyce

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Igor Stravinsky

In three words: Russian pianist, composer
Thoughts on whiskey: "My God, so much I similar to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey."

Noah "Soggy" Sweat

In three words: Southern legislator, guess
Thoughts on whiskey: Sweat gave his famous "If-past-whiskey" speech to the Mississippi legislature in 1953. Author John Grisham'due south reading begins at 5:04 in the clip below.

"I had not intended to hash out this controversial discipline at this particular time. However, I desire you to know that I do not shun controversy. On the contrary, I volition take a stand on any issue at any time, regardless of how fraught with controversy it might exist. You have asked me how I feel about whiskey. All right, hither is how I feel nigh whiskey.

If when you say whiskey you lot mean the devil'south brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster, that defiles innocence, dethrones reason, destroys the dwelling house, creates misery and poverty, yea, literally takes the bread from the mouths of little children; if y'all mean the evil beverage that topples the Christian human being and woman from the pinnacle of righteous, gracious living into the bottomless pit of degradation, and despair, and shame and helplessness, and hopelessness, and so certainly I am against it.

Merely; If when you say whiskey yous mean the oil of chat, the philosophic wine, the ale that is consumed when good fellows get together, that puts a vocal in their hearts and laughter on their lips, and the warm glow of contentment in their eyes; if you hateful Christmas cheer; if you mean the stimulating drink that puts the bound in the old gentleman'due south step on a frosty, crispy morning time; if you mean the drink which enables a human being to magnify his joy, and his happiness, and to forget, if only for a little while, life's groovy tragedies, and heartaches, and sorrows; if you hateful that drink, the sale of which pours into our treasuries untold millions of dollars, which are used to provide tender care for our little crippled children, our blind, our deaf, our dumb, our distressing anile and infirm; to build highways and hospitals and schools, then certainly I am for it.

This is my stand. I will non retreat from it. I will non compromise."

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