Scotch Quotations | Page 2

There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others.

My own experience has been that the tools I need for my trade are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whisky.

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

The Irish are hearty, the Scotch plausible, the French polite, the Germans good-natured, the Italians courtly, the Spaniards reserved and decorous - the English alone seem to exist in taking and giving offense.

The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him.

Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right.

I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it.

Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough.

Why don’t you come up and have a little ... scotch and sofa?

My kids scotch tape worms to the sidewalk and watch the birds get hernias.

My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six I came up missing, they put my picture on a bottle of scotch.

Come, let me know what it is that makes a Scotch man happy!

Scotch needs water like a fish needs a bicycle.

The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it.