"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."
-Tom Waits
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy."
-Benjamin Franklin
"It is a fair wind that blew men to the ale."
-Washington Irving
"I would give all my fame for a pot of ale, and safety."
-William Shakespeare
"Give me a woman who truly loves beer, and I will conquer the world."
Kaiser Wilhelm II
"What event is more awfully important to an English colony than the
erection of its first brewhouse?"
-Reverend Sydney Smith
"The church is near but the road is icy.
The bar is far away but I will walk carefully."
-Russian Proverb
"But if at church they would give us some ale
And a pleasant fire our souls to regale
We'd sing and pray All the live-long day
Nor ever once from the church to stray"
-William Blake
"Quaintest thoughts, queerest fancies
come to life and fade away.
What care I how the day advances
I am drinking ale today."
-Edgar Allan Poe
"Abstainer: A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying
himself a pleasure."
-Ambrose Bierce
"The man who called it 'near beer' was a bad judge of distance."
-Luke McLuke
"Bart, a woman is like a beer. They look good, they smell good, and
you'd step over your own mother just to get one!"
-Homer Simpson
"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."
-Miguel de Cervantes
"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
-Winston Churchill
"Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
-Oscar Wilde
"you can't have a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an
airline-it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some
nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER."
-Frank Zappa
