Rum Punch Quotes

#1. When George Washington ran for election to Virginia's local assembly, the House of Burgesses, in 1758, his campaign team handed out twenty-eight gallons of rum, fifty gallons of rum punch, thirty-four of wine, forty-six of beer, and two of cider - in a county with only 391 voters.

Tom Standage

#2. A lot of what you presume to be evidence of your intelligence is just part of a vast cultural inheritance.

David McRaney

#3. Life could not change the sun or water the desert, so it changed itself.

John Steinbeck

#4. U2 is sort of song writing by accident really. We don't really know what we're doing and when we do, it doesn't seem to help.

Bono

#5. The whole family of pride and ignorance are incestuous, and mutually beget each other

Charles Caleb Colton

#6. Pleased as punch. That's an odd-sounding turn of phrase, isn't it? How can a punch be pleased? It's punch. Rum and lemons and such. And if it's the other sort of punch they mean, a punch in the face- well that doesn't sound very pleasing at all, does it?

Gail Dayton

#7. It was as if the story had been added to, so as not to disgust people too much.

Carol Plum-Ucci

#8. I've come to realize that the mark is the primal gesture, the internal connection of the caveman to the cosmos; an impossibility similar to an impulse in an insect's nervous system that it could somehow reduce to dust a steel beam by endlessly crawling over it.

Joel-Peter Witkin