Famous (and not so famous) Beer Quotes

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.
Abraham Lincoln

Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.
Winston Churchill to his Secretary of War, 1944

A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.
W.C. Fields

We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.
Martin Luther

Beer will always have a definite role in the diet of an individual and can be considered a cog in the wheel of nutritional foods.
Bruce Carlton

No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.
John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger, or a beer.
Confucius

If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
David Daye

He was a wise man who invented beer.
Plato

This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption... Beer!
Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Friar Tuck

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
Kaiser Wilhelm

Beer: So much more than just a breakfast drink.
Whitstran Brewery sign

"Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel shamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
Jack Handy

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. "
Frank Sinatra

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
Frank Zappa

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
Henny Youngman

"When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. Sooooo, let's all get drunk and go to heaven!"
Brian O'Rourke

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
Benjamin Franklin

24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
Stephen Wright

Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
Dave Barry

[I recommend]...bread, meat, vegetables and beer.
Sophocles' philosophy of a moderate diet

Alright brain, I don't like you and you don't like me, so just get me through this exam so I can go back to killing you slowly with beer.
Homer Simpson

Oh, lager beer! It makes good cheer, And proves the poor man's worth; It cools the body through and through, and regulates the health.
Anonymous

Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, "It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver."
Jack Handy

Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
Dave Barry

I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
Shakespeare, Henry V

I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer
Jim Morrison, the Doors

Comments

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It is better to think of church in the alehouse than to think of the alehouse in church. -- Martin Luther (1483-1546)

The selling of bad beer is a crime against Christian love. -- Law, the City of Augsburg, 13th Century

A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. -- William Blake

It is my design to die in the brew-house; let ale be placed to my mouth when I am expiring, that when the choirs of angels come, they may say, "Be God propitious to this drinker." -- Saint Columbanus, A.D. 612

From man's sweat and God's love, beer came into the world. -- Saint Arnoldus

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Wild

On Tap -
1. Irish Red Rye
2. Mirror Pond Pale Ale
3. Oak Aged Bourbon Porter
4. American Brown
5. Uwe's Amber
Primary - Espresso Imperial Stout
Secondary - Obsidian Stout Clone

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks

Famous (and not so famous) Beer Quotes

Oh, Lisa, you and your stories: Bart's a vampire, beer kills brain cells. Now let's go back to that...building...thingie... where our beds and TV... is.
Homer Simpson

Son, when you participate in sporting events, it's not whether you win or lose... it's how drunk you get.
Homer Simpson

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

A quart of ale is dish for a king.
Shakespeare, A Winter's Tale

Whiskey's too rough,
Champagne costs too much,
Vodka puts my mouth in gear.
I hope this refrain,
Will help me explain,
As a matter of fact,
I like beer.
Tom T. Hall

Back and side go bare, go bare,
Both foot and hand go cold;
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.
Bishop Still (John), Gammer Gurton's Needle

Man's way to God is with beer in hand.
Koffyar Tribal Wisdom, Nigeria

I'd hate to be a teetotaler. Imagine getting up in the morning and knowing that's as good as you're going to feel all day.
Dean Martin

Busy, curious, thirsty fly,
Drink with me, and drink as I.
On a Fly drinking out of a Cup of Ale
William Oldys 1696-1761

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
Henry Lawson

For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
Xenophon, c.435-c.354 B.C., Greek historian

Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale.
George Borrow, Lavengro, 1851

I've always believed that paradise will have my favorite beer on tap.
Rudyard Wheatley

The best beer is where priests go to drink.
Anon

Religions change, beer and wine remain.
Harvey Allen, 1889-1949

I like to say dark beer is a little bit like going to church: Everybody talks about it, but few people actually go.
F.X. Matt

They who drink beer will think beer.
Washington Irving

Wild

On Tap -
1. Irish Red Rye
2. Mirror Pond Pale Ale
3. Oak Aged Bourbon Porter
4. American Brown
5. Uwe's Amber
Primary - Espresso Imperial Stout
Secondary - Obsidian Stout Clone

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks