The Drew Review

On a tapestry in The Scotch Whisky Experience in Edinburgh (Of which I am now a member). It reads:

“Whiskey has made us what we are. It goes with our climate and with our nature. It rekindled old fires in us, our hatred of cant and privilege, our convivality, our sense of nationhood, and above all, our love of Scotland.”
Sir Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart, 1959

“Gentlemen, I …have just met with the most wonderful adventure that ever befell a human being. As I was walking along the Grassmarket, all of a sudden, the street rose up and struck me in the face.”
Lord Rockville, 1877

“We supped well, and after supper, dr Johnson, whom I had not seen taste any fermented liquor during our travels, called for a Gill of whisky. Come said he, let me know what it is that makes a scotchman happy!”
James Boswell, 1773

“John Barleycorn was a hero bold,
Of noble enterprise,
For if you do but taste his blood,
‘Twill make your courage rise.”
Robert Burns, 1787

“There are two rules for drinking whisky. First, never take whisky without water, and the second never take water without whisky.”
Chic Murray 1977

“If a body could just find oot the exac proper proportion o’ the quantity that ought to be drank every day, and keep to that, I verify trow that he micht leeve forever, without dying at a’ and that doctors and kirkyards would go out of fashion.”
James Hogg 1770 - 1835