Beer Quotes - Page 24

• You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

  Voltaire

  Book, Ambition, Vanity

  Voltaire (2016). “Voltaire – The Philosophical Works: Treatise On Tolerance, Philosophical Dictionary, Candide, Letters on England, Plato’s Dream, Dialogues, The Study of Nature, Ancient Faith and Fable, Zadig…: From the French writer, historian and philosopher, famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion and freedom of expression”, p.390, e-artnow

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• Some folks of cider make a rout
  And cider's well enough no doubt
  When better liquors fail;
  But wine, that's richer, better still,
  Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will)
  Must yield to nappy ale

  John Gay

  Wine, Yield, Doubt

  John Gay (1806). “The Poetical Works”, p.102

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• Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.

  Jack Herer

  Marijuana, Body, Cannabis

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• For all we know that English people are/ Fed upon beef - I won't say much of beer/ Because 'tis liquor only, and being far/ From this my subject, has no business here;/ We know too, they are very fond of war,/ A pleasure - like all pleasures - rather dear;/ So were the Cretans - from which I infer/ That beef and battle both were owing her

  Lord Byron

  War, Animal, People

  Lord Byron (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.241, Routledge

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• Life isn't all beer and skittles.

  Thomas Hughes

  Life, Skittles, Hurling

  Tom Brown's Schooldays pt. 1, ch. 2 (1857)

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• Who am I, why am I here? Forget the question, someone give me another beer.

  Meat Loaf

  Philosophy, Giving, Forget

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• About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our polls are to be trusted, nearly 230 million Americans believe that a book showing neither unity of style nor internal consistency was authored by an omniscient, omnipotent and omnipresent deity.

  Sam Harris

  Believe, Book, Years

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.17, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I was thinking that women should put pictures of missing husbands on beer cans.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Husband, Humor

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• I suspect states are going to realize there's money to be made, and they'll start to change laws so people can distil to sell. It happened with wine, it happened with beer.

  Adam Rogers

  Wine, Law, People

  "I Went Drinking With the Author of “Proof,” This New Book on the Science of Booze". Interview with Alex Park, www.motherjones.com. May 28, 2014.

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• I travel up and down the country and I've been all around the middle of America for many years. Middle America is not one big mass of people with a proverbial beer in its hand, keeping the country down. That is not my experience of it and I don't labor under that misconception. And we have a long tradition of coming together through music in our country.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Country, Hands, Years

  Interview with Vickie Karp, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 18, 2009.

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• Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair.

  Aldous Huxley

  Drinking, Worship, Affair

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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• And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

  Al Purdy

  Drunk, Floating, Able

  Al Purdy, Robert Budde (2006). “The more easily kept illusions: the poetry of Al Purdy”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr

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• I'd been doing some light-beer commercials for Budweiser and Coors, and I was doing stand-up comedy. I wanted to get into the acting world, and my agent sent me on audition and they liked it.

  Kevin Nealon

  Light, Acting, Budweiser

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If you want someone to grab a beer with, I may not be that guy. But if you want someone to drive you home, I will get the job done and I will get you home.

  Ted Cruz

  Jobs, Home, Guy

  Your Money, Your Vote: The Republican Presidential Debate, www.cnbc.com. October 29, 2015.

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• Think beer; drink beer.

  Matt Groening

  Thinking, Drink

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• And now, with the aid of this common beer glass, I shall play my fifty guinea solo.

  Kenny Baker

  Glasses, Play, Fifty

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• No doubt you are as alarmed as I by the tragic decline in America's language skills. If 10 people read the following sentence: Two tanker trucks has just overturned in Alaska, spilling a totel of 10,000 gallons of beer onto a highway. two would find an error in subject-verb agreement, two would find an error in spelling, and six would find a sponge and drive north.

  Mike Nichols

  Agreement, Skills, Two

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• The battle thing is very important in hip-hop, but at the same time, I want to sit down and have a beer and listen to Rakim.

  Pharoahe Monch

  Hip Hop, Important, Battle

  Interview with Adam Mansbach, believermag.com. January 2011.

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• I am a futility. The life of prayer begins with that. And God is not a comfort, to be offered like Kleenex. God is a poisoned sea, with broken syringes washing up on the beach. God is shopping malls stretching to the horizon and warplanes in the sky. God is a flat tire in a rainstorm and beer cans in the ditch, a bottle shattered on a highway and the taste of gunmetal in your mouth.

  Tim Farrington

  Beach, Prayer, Shopping

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• Jeb Bush cheated on his diet and had a fried Snickers bar, pork on a stick, and a beer. Jeb Bush said he ate it so at least he could see some of his numbers go up.

  Conan O'Brien

  Numbers, Pork, Bars

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• If they had built the Energy East pipeline to transport beer, we'd be okay.

  Elizabeth May

  Energy, East, Pipeline

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• Okay, I'm flattered, I appreciate your attempt at making me feel better after the fiasco with the pita rolls, but please ring up this beer I need it more than flattery.

  Amanda Filipacchi

  Feel Better, Appreciate, Needs

  Amanda Filipacchi (2014). “Love Creeps: A Novel”, p.22, Open Road Media

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• My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day.

  John Molson

  Expectations, Half, Sanguine

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• Drinking beer with friends is perhaps the most underestimated of all Reformation insights and essential to ongoing reform; and wasting time with a choice friend or two on a regular basis might be the best investment of time you ever make.

  Carl R Trueman

  Drinking, Two, Choices

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• What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?

  Francesca Marciano

  Regret, Heart, Order

  Francesca Marciano (2011). “Casa Rossa”, p.91, Random House

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