Saying: The man who drinks whiskey before he is forty is a fool . . .

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

The YBQ includes an interesting quotation about imbibing from
architect Frank Lloyd Wright in 1958:

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a
fool if he doesn’t afterward

Nigel Rees in Cassell's Humorous Quotations included a quotation on
this topic from William Faulkner published in 1965:

. . . man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn
fool if he doesn't.

I was asked to search for a common source for this piece of wisdom. In
1901 I found this: "the man who drinks whiskey before he is forty is a
fool, and that the man who does not drink it after he is forty is a
fool."

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2013/08/31/drink-fifty/

Feedback, citations, and bottles of whiskey are welcome,
Garson

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