A Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

Mignon McLaughlin

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Action Come Easier Late Philosophy Whiskey Wine

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Mignon McLaughlin
American - Journalist
June 6, 1913 - December 20, 1983

You'll be my glass of wine I'll be your shot of whiskey

Blake Shelton

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

Kid Rock

I had a job for a year, working in a high-quality whiskey-and-wine shop.

KT Tunstall

[I normally go-to] whiskey on the rocks. Or a beer. Or with dinner, a glass of white wine.

Scott Eastwood

I don't eat shellfish. I drink wine moderately and have one whiskey every evening before dinner.

Norman Lloyd

The advantages of whiskey over dogs are legion. Whiskey does not need to be periodically wormed, it does not need to be fed, it never requires a special kennel, it has no toenails to be clipped or coat to be stripped. Whiskey sits quietly in its special nook until you want it. True, whiskey has a nasty habit of running out, but then so does a dog.

W. C. Fields

If when you say 'whiskey' you mean the devil's brew, the poison scourge, the bloody monster that defiles innocence, dethrones reason... then I am certainly against it. But, if when you say 'whiskey' you mean the oil of conversation, the philosophic wine... the drink that enables a man to magnify his joy... then I am certainly for it. This is my stand. I will not retreat from it. I will not compromise.

Noah S. Sweat

I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.

Babe Ruth

All of us, whether we are ignorant of philosophy or professors of philosophy, find it easier to follow dogma than to think.

Martha Nussbaum

The privileged classes can afford psychoanalysis and whiskey. Whereas all we get is sermons and sour wine. This is manifestly unfair. I protest, silently.

Donald Barthelme

Brother, be a brother, fill this tiny cup of mine. And please, sir, make it whiskey: I have no head for wine!

Nick Cave

Philosophy must never be divorced from action. Unless it is put into practice, philosophy is nothing more than an intellectual game.

Josei Toda

Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth.

Pablo Neruda

I read a little bit of nonfiction and a lot of poetry. I think of poetry as my shot of whiskey when I don't have time to savor a whole bottle of wine.

Alice McDermott

Nothing is easier than to simplify life and them make a philosophy about it. The trouble is that the resulting philosophy is true only of that simplified life.