Irish whiskey is whiskey made on the island of Ireland. The word 'whiskey' is an Anglicisation of uisce beatha or uisge beatha, a phrase from the Goidelic branch of languages (Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Manx) meaning 'water of life'.
QuotaBillsI like a wine that fights back. - John Steed
I'm Irish. We think sideways. - Spike Milligan
Good wine is a necessity of life. - Thomas Jefferson
Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch. - Andy Rooney
Wine is the flower in the buttonhole of life. - Werumeus Buning
No date on the calendar is as important as tomorrow. - Roy W Howard
I should never have switched from Scotch to martinis. - Humphrey Bogart
An Irish wedding is a tame thing to an Irish funeral. - Mary Deasy
I have a thing for red-haired Irish boys, as we know. - Sandra Bullock
I cook with wine; sometimes I even add it to the food. - WC Fields
Drown in a vat of whiskey? Oh death, where is thy sting? - WC Fields
Ah, beer, my one weakness. My Achilles heel, if you will. - Homer Simpson
If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good? - Cardinal Richelieu
I'm on a whiskey diet. I've lost three days already. - Tommy Cooper
I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time. - Marilyn Monroe
A meal of bread, cheese, and beer constitutes the perfect food. - Queen Elizabeth I
Irish Alzheimer's - you forget everything except the grudges. - Unknown
Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy. - Benjamin Franklin
Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history. - Fiona Shaw
The calendar was a mathematical progression with arbitrary surprises. - Paul Scott
Too much of anything is bad. Too much of good whisky is barely enough. - Mark Twain
Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. - Fiona Shaw
Politics is the chloroform of the Irish people, or, rather the hashish. - Oliver St. John Gogarty
I've heard some duff Irish accents. The worst must be Mickey Rourke. - James Nesbitt
Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy. - Frank Sinatra
You can lead a horse to water but I'd rather ride it to the liquor store. - Wayne Nowazek
Whiskey is by far the most popular of all remedies that won't cure a cold. - Jerry Vale
Ethics and equity and the principles of justice do not change with the calendar. - D.H. Lawrence
Yesterday was not your defining moment. The calendar moved forward; why not you? - Steve Maraboli
Wherever you go and whatever you do, may the luck of the Irish be there with you. - Irish Blessings
My mother is Irish, my father is black and Venezuelan, and me - I'm tan, I guess. - Mariah Carey
I'm not a walking extra in a Chekhov play; I'm no Slavic gloom or Irish gloom. - Orson Welles
I am who I am: an Irish Catholic kid, working class from Long Island. And I made it big. - Bill O'Reilly
There are only two kinds of people in the world: the Irish and those who wish they were. - Irish Saying
I'm Irish. That means I'm Catholic. But, truth is, now I'm a retired Christian. - Peter O'Toole
I have a difficult time doing an Irish accent; even now, it kind of fades slowly into Scottish. - Robin Williams
An Irishman after trying American beer for the first time: "Put it back in the horse!" - Unknown
'Next time!' In what calendar are kept the records of those next times which never come? - Helen Hunt Jackson
Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine. - Joan Collins
The curse of the Irish is not that they don't know the words to a song - its that they know them all. - Susan Dooley
We have embarked upon the world's largest and longest cocktail party, and every issue imaginable is up for grabs. - Geoffrey Moore
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. - William Butler Yeats
For my last meal, I'd want an Irish breakfast with soda bread and one of my dad's omelettes with three or four eggs. - Erin O'Connor
I have made an important discovery - that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, produces all the effects of intoxication. - Oscar Wilde
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. - Brendan Behan
Mancation: A man's vacation. Generally includes lots of beer, a Redneck grill, slabs of meat for cooking and a sack of fireworks. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com
In those days the best painkiller was ice. It wasn't addictive, and it was particularly effective if you poured some whiskey over it. - George Burns
Irish whiskey was first developed for its medicinal benefits. It's just lucky for the rest of us that the Irish are such a sickly bunch. - Unknown
When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea. - Ernest Hemingway
Franklin D. Roosevelt: "Why do you Irish always answer a question with a question?",
New York Mayor Al Smith: "Do we now?" - Franklin D Roosevelt