Thought on Beer and Drinking


























  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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