Grain Scotch Whisky

Famous quotes containing the words grain, scotch and/or whisky:

    “With a grain of salt.”
    —Pliny The Elder (23–79)

    “Wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinquepace; 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 cinquepace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “The whisky on your breath
    Could make a small boy dizzy;
    But I hung on like death;
    Such waltzing was not easy.”
    —Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)