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Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. -- Ambrose Bierce
Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum. -- George Clymer
I was working with real artists [in the Rum Diary] , and that's difficult to do and very rare, in this industry, ironically. -- Amber Heard
[The Rum Diary] is a prestigious movie and it's got a great, talented cast, so they wanted to make sure they had the right person for the role, but it was a torturous process. It was painful. -- Amber Heard
Red Rum is the greatest thing on four legs since Pegasus. -- Jean Rook
I read 'The Rum Diary,' and I didn't really like it very much. -- Bruce Robinson
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. -- Lord Byron
I like Wadi Rum - it's the best view I've ever seen of what could be Mars. -- Ridley Scott
I'm the most unromantic lump of Northern suet. Yes, a woman did accost me once in South Shields, but she had a face like Red Rum. -- Les Dawson
The various estimates of the height of the true summit vary considerably, but by taking an average of these figures it is possible to say confidently that the summit of Rum Doodle is 40,000 1/2 feet above sea level. -- William Ernest Bowman
The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about. -- T. S. Eliot
I had been feeling a little rum. I didn't think it was anything serious because years ago I felt a lump and it was benign. I assumed this would be too. It kind of takes the wind out of your sails, and I don't know what the future holds, if anything. -- Maggie Smith
I'm drinking lots of rum and popping pinks and greys. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Drinking rum before 10 am makes you a pirate, not an alcoholic. -- Granger Smith
Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash. -- Winston Churchill
Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god. -- Wade Davis
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me. -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? -- William Cowper
I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum and we wound up drinking all night. -- Jimmy Buffett
Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time. -- Desi Arnaz
The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life. -- Chi Chi Rodriguez
Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! -- Robert Louis Stevenson
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation. -- Adam Smith
New York means many different things to me. It certainly means cheesecake, more species of cheesecake than I ever knew existed: rum, orange, hazelnut, chocolate marble, Italian, Boston, and of course, New York. -- David Frost
Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted only in the "Northwest Passage" and, even there, only by highly imaginative and overenthusiastic novelists. -- David A. Embury
There's one white powder which is by far the most lethal known, it's called sugar. . . . The Caribbean back in the 18th century was a soft drug producer: sugar, rum, tobacco, chocolate. And in order to do it, they had to enslave Africans. -- Noam Chomsky
I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in Heaven? Maybe it's too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so -- as a sundowner. Except, of course, the sun never goes down there. Oh, man, this heaven is going to take some getting used to. -- Desmond Tutu
A very little boy stood upon a heap of gravel for the honour of Rum Alley. He was throwing stones at howling urchins from Devil's Row, who were circling madly about the heap and pelting him. His infantile countenance was livid with the fury of battle. His small body was writhing in the delivery of oaths. -- Stephen Crane
My indulgences are Skittles and rum raisin ice cream. -- Sanya Richards-Ross
The Indians gave up the land of their own free will, and for it received brass kettles, blankets, guns, shirts, flints, tobacco, rum and many trinkets in which their simple hearts delighted. -- Patrick Gordon
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
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. -- Winston Churchill
If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel -- Robert Louis Stevenson
I had a werewolf morning. Awoke with a rum hangover, imagined blood on the walls, and prayed to god it was mine. -- Randy Wayne
It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum. -- Hunter S. Thompson
WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man. -- Ambrose Bierce
The literate man is a sucker for propaganda...You cannot propagandize a native. You can sell him rum and trinkets, but you cannot sell him ideas. -- Marshall McLuhan
Sister Maria Martinez whom I believe I've mentioned before has been giving me cooking classes. Today I learned how to bake mean banana bread. The secret apparently is half a cup of dark rum. -- Adele Griffin

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