The Caribbean is undoubtedly the epicenter of all rum production in the world. Virtually every island here produces its own distinct rum style. More than 80% of the world’s total output comes from here, of which 80% of the US supply comes from Puerto Rico. In honor of Rum and sultry Caribbean nights, here are some famous Rum Quotes:

Rum Quotes

“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, The Rum Diary

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DON’T die of love; in Heaven above

Or hell, they’ll not endure you;
Why look so glum when Doctor Rum
Is waiting for to cure you ?
-Oliver Herford.

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The only way that I could figure they could improve upon 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 quotes (AmericanComedian and Columnist, 1946-1994

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There’s naught, no doubt, so much the spirit calms as rum and true religion.

-Lord Byron

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“The first time I played the Masters, I was so nervous I drank a bottle of rum before I teed off. I shot the happiest 83 of my life.”

– Chi Chi Rodriguez quotes (Puerto Rican Golfer, b.1935)

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“Time Flies When You’re Having RUM”
-Erik Voskamp

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“Don’t talk to me about Naval tradition! It’s nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash”
-Winston Churchill

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“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

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Drinking Rum before 10am makes you a Pirate, not an Alcoholic

– Earl Dibbles Jr.

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“The Best ideas come while sipping Rum”
-Pavol Kazimir

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“All roads lead to rum.”

-W. C. Fields

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“If I ever go missing, please put my photo on a Rum bottle, not a milk carton. I want my friends to know I am missing!

-Laurie Manzer

Rum Drinking Toasts

There is nothing better than offering up a good toast at the right moment. If you are drinking rum, consider using one of these Rum drinking toasts:

May your ANCHOR be tight,

Your CORK be loose,

Your RUM be spiced,

And your COMPASS be true.

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Drink Rum, Drink Rum

Drink Rum, by Gum with me,

I don’t give a damn

For any damn man,

That won’t take a drink with me.

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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!”
Louis Stevenson

This article was written by Captain Tim and the Crew of Caribbean Trading Company.

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