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Bourbon does for me what the piece of cake did for Proust. -- Walker Percy
Fame confers a rank above that of gentleman and of kings. As soon as she issues her patent of nobility, it matters not a straw whether the recipient be the son of a Bourbon or of a tallow-chandler. -- Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
It's one thing to ask your bank manager for an overdraft to buy 500 begonias for the borders in Haslemere, but quite another to seek financial succour to avail oneself of the 5-2 they're offering on lie de Bourbon for the St Leger. -- Jeffrey Bernard
That's country music for you - bourbon and the Bible. -- Dave Haywood
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it. -- Lillian Gordy Carter
We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners. -- John Shelton Reed
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. -- Heinrich Mann
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are a bourbon biscuit. -- Frida Kahlo
I love coffee in a cup, little fuzzy pups, bourbon in a glass, and grass. -- Tom T. Hall
I wanna get drunk 'til I'm off my mind. One bourbon, one scotch, and one beer. -- John Lee Hooker
I am Bourbon as a matter of honour , royalist according to reason and conviction, and republican by taste and character . -- FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand
I was brought up to believe that Scotch whisky would need a tax preference to survive in competition with Kentucky bourbon. -- Hugo Black
Sure I eat what I advertise. Sure I eat Wheaties for breakfast. A good bowl of Wheaties with bourbon can't be beat. -- Dizzy Dean
Between 9 and 10 AM the American radio is concerned almost exclusively with love. It seems a little like ending breakfast with a stiff bourbon. -- Dean Acheson
I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera. -- Brad Pitt
From Bourbon Street to Baton Rouge, the freaks come out at night in Louisiana. And nowhere are they more raucous and unnerving than at Tiger Stadium. -- Pat Forde
Nothing is so musical as the sound of pouring bourbon for the first drink on a Sunday morning. Not Bach or Schubert or any of those masters. -- Carson McCullers
Val- I'm on Bourbon"? (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
One of the best moments Ive ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again. -- Ray Nagin
One of the best moments I've ever had in New Orleans is seeing Bourbon Street filled on a weekend night not long ago. Just watching the city breathe again. -- Ray Nagin
How well I remember my first encounter with The Devil'ss Brew. I happened to stumble across a case of bourbon - and went right on stumbling for several days thereafter. -- W. C. Fields
It is impossible that had Buonaparte descended from a race of vegetable feeders that he could have had either the inclination or the power to ascend the throne of the Bourbons. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
I was drinking a lot of bourbon. I was miserable. I was starting to get work, but it wasn't remotely satisfying. It was garbage compared to the theater I was doing. -- Nick Offerman
The only way that I could figure they could improve upon Coca-Cola, one of life's most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put bourbon in it. -- Lewis Grizzard
Men and women thought and did noble and mean things that would have been impossible to them before or after. A man cannot drink old Bourbon long and remain in his normal condition. We did not drink Bourbon, but blood. -- Rebecca Harding Davis
I used to go to Bourbon Street when I was a kid and there would be club after club after club of people who were around when the music started. I mean these are legendary, maybe not so well known, but legendary musicians. -- Harry Connick, Jr.
As a rule, I try to avoid the French Quarter because of the crowds, especially Bourbon Street. But hey, some people love it. A great, wild, adult thing to see is the costume competition in front of the bar Oz on Bourbon early morning on Fat Tuesday. -- Bryan Batt
There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise. She wore Bourbon white to her death, but wears the tricolor now - white cheeks, blue lips, red dripping from her neck. Long live the revolution. -- Jennifer Donnelly
There's pride on Bourbon Street for the musicians that work there. They take it very seriously. I've never worked there or played in band there, but it's a part of the city. They play for the tourists and represent a whole different side of the culture of our city. -- Trombone Shorty
Bourbon's the only drink. You can take all that champagne stuff and pour it down the English Channel. Well, why wait 80 years before you can drink the stuff? Great vineyards, huge barrels aging forever, poor little old monks running around testing it, just so some woman in Tulsa, Oklahoma can say it tickles her nose. -- John Michael Hayes
Well I ain't seen my baby since I don't know when, I've been drinking bourbon whiskey, scotch and gin Gonna get high man I'm gonna get loose, Need me a triple shot of that juice Gonna get drunk don't you have no fear I want one bourbon, one scotch and one beer One bourbon, one scotch, one beer. -- John Lee Hooker
Kentucky has always said you can't really make bourbon outside of Kentucky because it's a combination of the barrels and the limestone-fed springs that give us the water. That's our story, and we're sticking to it. -- John Yarmuth
I remain faithful to bourbon sour. It's absolutely delicious. You'd have to ask a bartender what's in it, but I think if you know you might never have a drink. I also love a little rum, 7 years aged, brown, when it is chilly, before dinner. -- Christian Louboutin
For watching sports, I tend to drink Guinness; early evenings always begin well with a Grey Goose and tonic with plenty of lime; and on a cold winter's night, there's nothing quite like a glass of Black Maple Hill... an absolute peach of a bourbon. -- Martin Bashir
For a southern belle, my grandmother was remarkably modern. She threw my grandfather out, for one thing - some kind of argument about bourbon whiskey - shortly after the birth of their third child, and then went back to school to get herself a teaching certificate. -- Preston Sturges
It's always on everyone's list, like, 'What's New Orleans like?' I think people have a pre-conceived idea, like it's just Mardi Gras and Bourbon Street. But really, there's so much culture, the music's great, the food's great. It's not good for the waistline! But I'm actually from the South, I'm from Georgia, so the weather doesn't bother me. -- Sung Kang
You say tomato, I say bourbon and coke. -- Drew Carey
Krupa's drums went through us like a triple bourbon. -- Eddie Condon
Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier. -- Edna Ferber
I'm old school. I was taught that ice was for bourbon, not for your arm. -- Rod Beck
I wouldn't want them [kids] to raid my liquor cabinet and glug down my bourbon either. -- Cheech Marin
There's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink. -- Gillian Flynn
Here's to new beginnings," Stuart says and raises his bourbon. I nod, sort of wanting to tell him that all beginnings are new. -- Kathryn Stockett
If it's not bourbon or sweatpants, it's going in the garbage.... No, don't get creative. Now is not a creative time. Now is a bourbon and sweatpants time. -- Justin Halpern
I know folks all have a tizzy about it, but I like a little bourbon of an evening. It helps me sleep. I don't much care what they say about it -- Lillian Carter
Over the years, he [Everett Dirksen] developed a style of infinitely subtle fustian, whose effect can still be remotely approximated by sipping twelve-year-old bourbon, straight, while reading Dickens aloud, in a sort of sepulchral purr. -- Lance Morrow

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