Quotes About Rum
A celebration of liquor
The saying tells us that “wine is fine, but liquor is quicker.” And if you’re like me, rum is one of the choices in your liquor cabinet that you reach for the quickest. So, of course, when I’m feeling thirsty, it’s time to celebrate one of my favorite drinks with a collection of quotes.
1. “Rum, n. Generically, fiery liquors that produce madness in total abstainers.” -Ambrose Bierce
2. “Rum is tonic that clarifies the vision, and sets things in true perspective.” -Brian D’Ambrosio
3. “Fifteen men on the Dead Man’s Chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum! Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!” -Robert Louis Stevenson
4. “Only, in Haiti, I realized, is it possible to drink rum and haggle with a god.” -Wade Davis
5. “Wine is crying juice. Rum is worse.” -Retta 6. “There’s naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.” -Lord Byron
7. “Rum is a flatterer, making fools and lunatics.” -James Lendall Basford
8. “I was hungry and went out for a bite, ran into a chum with a bottle of rum, and we wound up drinking all night.” -Jimmy Buffett
9. “I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum?” -William Cowper
10. “The only way that I could figure they could improve Coca Cola, one of life’s most delightful elixirs, which studies prove will heal the sick and occasionally raise the dead, is to put rum or bourbon in it.” -Lewis Grizzard
11. “If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel!” -Robert Louis Stevenson
12. “Best ideas come while sipping rum.” -Pavol Kazimir
13. “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 live, for a stated sum — many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!” -Henry David Thoreau
14. “I wonder whether they have rum and Coke in heaven? Maybe it’s too mundane a pleasure, but I hope so — as a sundowner. Except, of course, the sun never goes down there. Oh, man, this heaven is going to take some getting used to.” -Desmond Tutu
15. “Red Rum is the greatest thing on four legs since Pegasus.” -Jean Rook
16. “Making a television show is not like making Coca-Cola or Bacardi rum. The human element in our business prevents us from finding a successful formula every time.” -Desi Arnaz
17. “If only every workday could be spent in the sunshine with pineapples full of rum. She’d get very little work done, but she’d be in an excellent mood.” -Jasmine Guillory
18. “It was a maddening image, and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.” -Hunter S. Thompson 19. “Have a glass of rum and see what you’ll become.” -Slogan
20. “There was a sound in their voices which suggested rum.” -Robert Louis Stevenson
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