William Tecumseh Sherman

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

American Soldier

Johnny Knoxville

You can tell it's good if you light it and a blue flame comes up; that means it's good moonshine and it won't make you go blind.

American Actor

AB de Villiers

I accept that it is not always moonshine and roses, and you can't expect things must always go your way.

South African Athlete

Dominic Grieve

We do ourselves as politicians no favours if we are seen to peddle unachievable moonshine.

British Politician

H. L. Mencken

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

American Writer

Big Smo

My playground is full of moonshine, mason jars, beer bottles, and bonfires.

American Musician

Loretta Lynn

Doo never actually made moonshine, but he hauled about an ocean of it.

Historically, moonshine refers to illegal homemade liquor, often with a high alcohol content.

Illegal Origins

Moonshine is culturally significant, especially in rural areas of the Southern United States.

Cultural Connection

Though some see it as tradition, moonshine can have negative connotations due to its illegality.

Negative Connotation

Moonshine in poetry often symbolizes romance or tranquility.

Romantic Imagery

Moonshine is used to describe the beauty of the moon's reflection on surfaces like water.

Natural Beauty

When called 'moonshine', plans or ideas are impractical or impossible, like building a moon base.

Impractical Ideas

Calling something 'moonshine' dismissively suggests that it lacks sense or validity.

Dismissive Language

 pulling water from a well and end it at midnight poised to beat a bucket with a stick and scare off wild boar that might mess with their potatoes, their only company a bit of homemade moonshine vodka. And there's a patina of simple defiance among them.

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 is it not easy to see how these young guys did that to haul moonshine you'd need to work late nights sometimes till the sun came above all you'd need a fast car