For many years I’ve been a lover of fine wines but even more obsessed with fine whiskies. The king of whiskey for me is bourbon. If I would have had two sons one of them would have been named “Jack” and the other named “Daniel”. A few years ago, I was in my seventh month of chemotherapy and wasn’t allowed any hard liquor. I was unfortunately forced to drink a series of less than satisfying hard ciders which truly sucked. Finally, the chemo ended, and I was given permission by all of my doctors to have a “real” drink. I returned home and poured myself a large glass of Jack Daniels and came very close to multiple orgasms. I got thoroughly wasted by that one drink, but I knew immediately that I was still alive. Today’s post contains quotes from a number of people with their own opinions about whiskey and they’re definitely worth remembering.

• “A gulp of hot whiskey at bedtime – it’s not very scientific, but it helps.” Alexander Fleming (the discoverer of penicillin)

• “I’m on a whiskey diet. I’ve lost three days already.” Tommy Cooper

• “Scotchy, scotch, scotch. Here it goes down. Down into my belly.” A quote from the movie Anchorman

• “You actually go down to Kentucky, Louisville, and they’ve got bourbons that make Old Grandad and Jack Daniels look like Schweppes bitterly lemon . . . there’s one called Rebel Yell and that’s dynamite shit.” Keith Richards

• “You cannot drink gin and tonic in the middle of the night. You must have whiskey to give you energy.” Margaret Thatcher

• “My God, so much I like to drink Scotch that sometimes I think my name is Igor Stra-whiskey.” Igor Stravinsky

• “My family was a bunch of drunks. When I was six, I came up missing, they put my picture on bottles of Scotch.” Rodney Dangerfield

• “When life hands you lemons, make Whiskey Sours.” WC Fields

• “I like my whiskey old and my women young.” Errol Flynn

• “There is no bad whiskey. There are only some whiskeys that aren’t as good as others.” Raymond Chandler