“There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren't as good as others.”
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Raymond Chandler 124
Novelist, screenwriter 1888–1959Related quotes
“Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.”
“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
“Two key rules of Third World travel: 1. Never run out of whiskey. 2. Never run out of whiskey.”
All the Trouble in the World (1994)
“Whiskey is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.”
It seems likely that the attribution to Twain is apocryphal. It is not listed as authentic on Twainquotes http://twainquotes.com/, and is not listed at all in either R. Ken Ramussen's The Quotable Mark Twain (1998) or David W. Barber's Quotable Twain (2002)
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“Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey.”
In a debate with religious leaders in Kansas City, as quoted in a eulogy for Darrow by Emanuel Haldeman-Julius (1938)
Context: Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were forbidden to eat from the tree of knowledge? I do. The church has always been afraid of that tree. It still is afraid of knowledge. Some of you say religion makes people happy. So does laughing gas. So does whiskey. I believe in the brain of man. I'm not worried about my soul.
“There were happy days, with watermelon, and sad days of whiskey.”
“Keep your best whiskey in a bottle marked ‘mouthwash.”
Source: Synners (1991), Chapter 5 (p. 57)
“Crooked cards and straight whiskey,
Slow horses and fast women.”