Whiskey

I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice.
- Abraham Lincoln, 1809 - 1865

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenaged boys.
- P. J. O'Rourke

As a cure for worrying, work is better than whiskey.
- Thomas Alva Edison, 1847 - 1931

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated, and a little drunk.
- Alben William Barkley, 1877 - 1956

The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid.
- Richard Braunstein

Great fury, like great whiskey, requires long fermentation.
- Truman Capote, 1924 - 1984