Rum
distilled alcoholic beverage made from sugarcane
Rum is an alcoholic beverage that was drunk in large quantities by British soldiers during the Peninsular and First World Wars and by civilians in more recent times.
QuotesEdit
- There's nought, no doubt, so much the spirit calms
As rum and true religion: thus it was.- Lord Byron, Don Juan (1824)
- Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.
- Winston Churchill, According to Churchill's assistant, Anthony Montague-Browne, Churchill had not coined this phrase, but wished he had.
- Fifteen men on the dead man's chest-Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!
- Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island (1883) Ch. 1, The Old Sea-dog at the Admiral Benbow.
- But why's the rum gone?.Oh. That's why.
- Captain Jack Sparrow, in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio
- Hide the rum.
- Captain Jack Sparrow, in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio
- I prefer rum... Rum's good.
- Captain Jack Sparrow, in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio
- Making port, where we can get rum and sultry wenches... once every ten years.
- Captain Jack Sparrow, in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) written by Ted Elliot and Terry Rossio
- "Rum's not drinking, it's surviving!
- Romer Treece, in The Deep (1977)