Whisky is liquid sunshine.

Whiskey, like a beautiful woman, demands appreciation. You gaze first, then it's time to drink.

I like whiskey. I always did, and that is why I never drink it.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port, for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy.

I want to fight you
just as when I am thirsty I want to drink.

My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.

whiskey. The chiefs were “exceedingly fond of it, they took up an empty bottle, Smelted it, and made maney Simple jestures and Soon began to be troublesom.” Clark

Humans needed water or they would die, but dirty water killed as surely as thirst. You had to boil it before you drank it. This culture around tea was a way of tiptoeing along the knife edge between those two ways of dying.

Yet, for my part, I was never usually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it were necessary. I am glad to have drunk water so long, for the same reason that I prefer the natural sky to an opium-eater’s heaven. I would fain keep sober always; and there are infinite degrees of drunkenness. I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man; wine is not so noble a liquor; and think of dashing the hopes of a morning with a cup of warm coffee, or of an evening with a dish of tea! Ah, how low I fail when I am tempted by them! Even music may be intoxicating. Such apparently slight causes destroyed Greece and Rome, and will destroy England and America. Of all ebriosity, who does not prefer to be intoxicated by the air he breathes?

"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"Ask a glass of water!"

I believe that water is the only drink for a wise man.

"It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water."

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.