Quotable Quotes on Beer

An Eclectic Collection


"Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health." -- Thomas Jefferson

"Let no man thirst for good beer." -- Sam Adams

"The devil is in you." -- Amy Semple McPherson, Women's Christian Temperance Union

"Beer is beer." -- Dave Thibodeau

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut." -- Ernest Hemmingway

"A drunk man's words are a sober man's thoughts." -- Jena Legg

"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 beer." -- 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

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

"Malt does more than Milton can To justify God's ways to Man." -- A. E. Housman

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

"Beauty is in the eyes of the beer-holder." --Anonymous

"Beer is the reason we get up each afternoon." -- Ray McNeill

"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

"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

"Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world." -- Kaiser Welhelm

"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

"Drink to me." -- Dying words of Pablo Picasso

"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

"When a man is forced by circumstance to drink water, you might have the common decency to turn away." -- Private Smalley, Last Stand at Feather River


Additional quotes from our readers are welcome. Please e-mail your quotes to Patrick at: dluzanp@ix.netcom.com for addition to this page. --Thank you!

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