""Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being……" — Samuel Johnson
""Uisce Beatha" is a compounded distilled spirit being drawn on aromatics, and the Irish sort is particularly distinguished for its pleasant and mild flavour."
Related Quotes
- Does one scent appeal more than another? Do you prefer this flavor, or that feeling? Is your practice sacred and… — Laozi
- It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant. — James Joyce
- The Japanese have become so smitten with the Western condiment - its texture as silky as a kimono, its tang… — Tom Robbins
- I have been interested in Irish traditional music for the past few years. — Nobuo Uematsu
- They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak… — John Steinbeck
- God created whiskey to keep the Irish from taking over the world. — Kinky Friedman
- The heart of a man's like that delicate weed, / Which requires to be trampled on, boldly indeed / Ere… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
- ALCOHOL? What is that? Sorry, that's not in my Vodkabulary, maybe I should go look it up on Whiskeypedia! — Nishan Panwar
- If my cuisine were to be defined by just one taste, it would be that of subtle, aromatic, extra-virgin olive… — Alain Ducasse
- Fragrance, like fashion is meant to express a strong personal style. — Marc Jacobs
1,266 Quotes by Samuel Johnson
Samuel Johnson has 1,266 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- Your aspirations are your possibilities.
- It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either…
- The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on…
- Much may be made of a Scotchman, if he be caught young.
- To a people warlike and indigent, an incursion into a rich country is never hurtful.
- The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.
- Health is certainly more valuable than money, because it is by health that money is procured.
- The certainty that life cannot be long, and the probability that it will be much shorter than nature allows, ought…
- Gratitude is a fruit of great cultivation; you do not find it among gross people.
- Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.
- The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
- He who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect…
More Aromatics Quotes
This quote is filed under Aromatics Quotes, one of 2 quotes in that category. Here are a few more: