Rum Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old rum quotes, rum sayings, and rum proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Have rum; I mean, have fun. Don't overdose. Cheers. Vikrmn
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
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
Sugar, rum and tobacco are commodities which are nowhere necessaries of life, which are become objects of almost universal consumption, and which are therefore extremely proper subjects of taxation. Adam Smith
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the wine I drink, I feel shame! Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the vineyards and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this wine, they might be out of work, and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this wine and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver. Jack Handey
Alcohol, contrary to instinct, is not the secret to happiness. Mary Schmich
If you are allergic to alcohol... can you take shots for that? Shmuel Breban
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer. Dave Barry
Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike. Sylvia Plath
Drinking begins where your comfort zone ends. Neale Donald Walsch
Every drunk was first a casual drinker. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future belongs to those who drink today. Malcolm X
Moral indignation is jealousy of your drink. H. G. Wells
My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well. Franz Kafka
If you keep drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel. Robert Louis Stevenson
It was understood that nothing of a tender nature could possibly be confided to old Barley, by reason of his being totally unequal to the consideration of any subject more psychological than gout, rum, and purser's stores. Charles Dickens
Craze with avarice, lust and rum, New York, thy name's Delirium. Byron R. Newton
I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? William Cowper
Alcohol removes inhibitions, like that scared little mouse who got drunk and shook his whiskers and shouted: 'Now bring on that damn cat!' Eleanor Early
Let us candidly admit that there are shameful blemishes on the American past, of which worst by far is rum. Nevertheless, we have improved man's lot and enriched his civilization with rye, bourbon, and the martini cocktail. In history has any other nation done so much? Bernard DeVoto
Among the expected glories of the Constitution, next to the abolition of slavery was that of rum. George Clymer
The only way that I could figure they could improve on 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
If it be the design of Providence to extirpate these savages in order to make room for the cultivation of the earth, it seems not improbably that rum may be the appointed means. Benjamin Franklin
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. Mignon McLaughlin
One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. Lady Nancy Astor
My name is old Jack Palmer, / I'm a man of olden days, / And so I wish to sing a song / To you of olden praise. / To tell of merry friends of old / When we were gay and young; / How we sat and sang together / Round the Old Keg of Rum... / And when harvest time was over, / And we'd get our harvest fee, / We'd meet, and quickly rise the keg, / And then we'd have a spree. / We'd sit and sing together / Till we got that blind and dumb / That we couldn't find the bunghole / Of the Old Keg of Rum. Andrew Barton Paterson
To alcohol! The cause of – and solution to – all of life’s problems. Homer Simpson
My rule of life prescribed as absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars & also the drinking of alcohol before, after & if need be during all meals & in the intervals between them. Sir Winston Churchill
The time has come / The time for a drink / But I don't want whiskey or gin / There's only one drink / That gets me so drunk / Until my head starts to spin / Far to the west / Under tropical sun / This mystical drink is brewed / On our mission to get totally drunk / We have got nothing to lose / Rum is the power / Rum is the key / Rum is the thing that will set us free! Christopher Bowes and Lasse Lammert