Beer Quotes - Page 31

• Not one man in a beer commercial has a beerbelly.

  Rita Rudner

  Funny, Witty, Drinking

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• The heart which grief hath cankered, Hath one unfailing remedy - the Tankard.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Grief, Heart, Alcohol

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1862). “Verses and Translations”, p.57

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• In my experience, you run into trouble when you ask a group of beer-drinking men to perform any task more complex than remembering not to light the filter ends of cigarettes.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Running, Humorous

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Greatest Hits”, p.86, Ballantine Books

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• Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him.

  Mark Twain

  Drinking, Men, Giving

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• Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once,-which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Men, Wind

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Maine Woods (Annotated Edition)”, p.24, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

  John Ciardi

  Civilization, Alcohol, Inseparable

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• It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Drinking, Men, Sobriety

  Thomas De Quincey (1841). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar”, p.89

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• When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?

  J. P. Donleavy

  Funny, Death, Dublin

  Ginger Man (1955) ch. 31

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• The troubles of our proud and angry dust are from eternity, and shall not fail. Bear them we can, and if we can we must. Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  A. E. Housman

  Dust, Sky, Proud

  Last Poems (1922) no. 9

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• The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work.

  Mark Twain

  Humorous, House, Empty

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3472, Delphi Classics

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• They didn't trademark everything back then. Now someone farts and they put a TM after it. Even Miller Lite says 'A Fine Pilsner Beer' on the label. It is a crime.

  Michael Jackson

  Humorous, Labels, Fart

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• From Richard Holbrooke - and I miss him every day - I learned two things. One, prioritization: Never take your eye off the longer-term reforms. The other thing is, he was a hell of a schmoozer! So I should take advantage of my Irish love of beer and gift of the gab, and build relationships. That's a cherished part of the job, asking someone, "How did you get to be the Rwandan ambassador?" I try to take advantage of the fact that I hope to be here at least until the president's term ends getting to know my colleagues.

  Samantha Power

  Eye, Missing, Trying

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• I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Drinking, Thinking, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• See, there's a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.

  Mickey Lolich

  Guy, Fats, Okay

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• We shall drink to our partnership. Do you like gin? It is my only weakness.

  Ernest Thesiger

  Weakness, Drink, Partnership

  "Fictional character: Doctor Pretorius". "Bride of Frankenstein", www.imdb.com. 1935.

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• Who watches golf on TV? Who calls eight friends over and gets a keg of beer? Landscapers, I guess. They sit around the TV, yelling, "Will you look at that golf path?Pure pea gravel."

  Jeff Cesario

  Golf, Yelling, Eight

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• If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Parent, Overcoming, Weight

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• I've got to make a new life for myself, I'm out to learn how to enjoy my leisure now that I'm retired. I've been doing things people expected of me always. I want to feel free. I want to sit under a linden tree with nothing more important to worry about than the temperature of the beer, if there is anything more important.

  Walter Huston

  People, Worry, Tree

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• Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours.

  Denis Hayes

  Running, Fun, Three

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• I don't go to the gym or practice yoga. And the closest thing I have to a nutritionist is the Carlsberg Beer Company. I just have the appetite of a pigeon.

  Colin Farrell

  Yoga, Practice, Pigeons

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• No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit.

  Frederick Banting

  Book, Science, Discovery

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• That's what's cool about working with computers. They don't argue, they remember everything, and they don't drink all your beer.

  Paul Leary

  Technology, Remembers Everything, Arguing

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• There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.

  A. Alfred Taubman

  Roots, Challenges, Marketing

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• In my case, I thoroughly enjoy running 100-odd miles a week. If I didn't I wouldn't do it. Who can define happiness? To some, happiness is a warm puppy or a glass of cold beer. To me, happiness is running in the hills with my mates around me.

  Ron Clarke

  Running, Glasses, Puppy

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• I think I get used to, even addicted to, the feelings associated with the end of a long training run. I love feeling empty, clean, worn out, starving, and sweat-purged. I love the good ache of muscles that have done me proud. I love the way a cold beer tastes later that afternoon. I love the way my body feels light and sinewy.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Running, Thinking, Light

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