Thought on Beer
and Drinking
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
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
--Ernest Hemmingway
Always remember that I have taken more out of
alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
--Winston Churchill
He was a wise man who invented wine.
--Plato
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the
time.
--Catherine Zandonella
A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have
the decency to thank her.
--W.C. Fields
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your
drink.
--Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
--His reply
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have
given us stomachs.
--David Daye
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
--Oscar Wilde
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up
reading.
--Henny Youngman
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be
happy.
--Benjamin Franklin
If you ever reach total enlightenment while
drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
--Deep Thought, Jack Handy
Without question, the greatest invention in the
history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a
fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.
--Dave Barry
The problem with the world is that everyone is a
few drinks behind.
--Humphrey Bogart
Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell
it from urine.
--David Moulton
People who drink light beer don't like the taste of
beer; they just like to pee a lot.
--Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer
the world.
--Kaiser Welhelm
I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of
sweet beer.
--Homer Simpson
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 drink to make other people interesting.
--George Jean Nathan
They who drink beer will think beer.
--Washington Irving
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk
to spend time with his fools.
--For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor
without holding on.
--Dean Martin
All right, brain, I don't like you and you don't
like me - so let's just do this and I'll get back to killing you with beer.
--Homer Simpson
Eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy
wine with a merry heart. —Ecclesiastes 9:10
When money's tight and hard to get and your
horse is also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt a pint of plain is your
only man. --Old Irish toast
Man's way to God is with beer in hand. --Koffyar
Tribal Wisdom, Nigeria
But if at church they give some ale And a pleasant
fire for our souls to regale We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day Nor
ever once from the church to stray. Beer drinkin' don't do half the harm of love
makin'. --Old New England proverb
Mother's in the kitchen washing out the jugs,
Sister's in the pantry bottling the suds, Father's in the cellar mixin' up the
hops, Johnny's on the front porch watchin' for the cops. --Prohibition song
Why, we'll smoke and drink our beer. For I like a
drop of good beer, I does. I'ze fond of good beer, I is. Let gentlemen fine sit
down to their wine. But we'll all of us here stick to our beer.
--Old Somersetshire English song
Drink is the feast of reason and the flow of soul.
--Alexander Pope
I've always believed that paradise will have my
favorite beer on tap. --Rudyard Wheatley
Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship
lends, With the sparkle of beer and wine; May its sentiment always be deeper, my
friends, Than the foam at the top of the stein. Then here's to the heartening
wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal,
and order the glasses around. --Ogden Nash
A mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer.
--Ancient Egyptian Wisdom, 2200 B.C.
The best beer is where priests go to drink. For a
quart of Ale is a dish for a King.
--Shakespeare, "A Winter's Tale"
History flows forward on rivers of beer. "For we
could not now take time for further search (to land our ship) our victuals being
much spent, especially our Beer." --Ship's log of the Mayflower But the
greatest love--the love above all loves, Even greater than that of a mother...
Is the tender, passionate, undying love, Of one beer drunken slob for another.
--Irish love ballad
You foam within our glasses, you lusty golden brew,
Whoever imbibes takes fire from you. The young and the old sing your praises,
Here's to beer, Here's to cheer, Here's to beer! --From the opera, "The
Bartered Bride"
Life, alas, Is very drear. Up with the glass, Down
with the beer! --Louis Untermeyer
"Here's to those who wish us well, as for the rest, they can go to
Hell!" --Greg Casto, Huntington
Here's to bein' single... drinkin' doubles... and
seein' triple!
God invented whiskey so the Irish wouldn't rule the
world!
I'll have what the man on the floor's having! --Dave
Gallagher, McGuires Irish Pub, Pensacola, FL
Merry met, and merry part, I drink to thee with all
my heart. --Phil Wade
Work is the curse of the drinking class. --Oscar
Wilde
Moderation is a fatal thing-- nothing succeeds like
excess. --Oscar Wilde
We are all of us in the gutter. But some of us are
looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde
"It is better to spend money like there's no
tomorrow then to spend tonight like there's no money." --P.J. O'Rourke
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