Rum Quotes

53 quotes by 46 authors

Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers. — Ambrose Bierce
There's naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion. — Lord Byron
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? — William Cowper
The only traditions of the Royal Navy are rum, sodomy and the lash. — Winston Churchill
I lived on rum, I tell you. It's been meat and drink, and man and wife, to me. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which the worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved… — Bernard DeVoto
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… — Chi Chi Rodriguez
No tribe has the right to sell, even to each other, much less to strangers.... Sell a country! Why not sell the air, the great… — Tecumseh
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
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… — Adele Griffin
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.… — Maggie Smith
I've been sober now for 18 years. With all the drugs, psychedelics and narcotics I did, I was [really] an alcoholic. Honestly, I only used… — Dennis Hopper
I had a werewolf morning. Awoke with a rum hangover, imagined blood on the walls, and prayed to god it was mine. — Randy Wayne
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… — William Ernest Bowman
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
Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of Slavery was that of Rum. — George Clymer
Red Rum is the greatest thing on four legs since Pegasus. — Jean Rook
The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of… — Charles Gavan Duffy
Alcoholism, the opium habit and tobaccoism are a trio of poison habits which have been weighty handicaps to human progress during the last three centuries.… — John Harvey Kellogg
Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may… — Henry David Thoreau

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