Brewing Beer Quotes

• It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.

  Washington Irving

  Beer, Men, Wind

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• To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

  Leo Durocher

  Drinking, Beer, Support

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• There's nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

  John Ciardi

  Drinking, Beer, Sobriety

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• We could not now take time for further search or consideration, our victuals being much spent, especially our beer.

  William Bradford

  Beer, Consideration, Take Time

  William Bradford, Edward Winslow (2009). “Plymouth plantation: selections from the narratives of William Bradford and Edward Winslow”

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• In the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.

  Dave Barry

  Drinking, Beer, Shoes

  Dave Barry (1994). “The World According to Dave Barry”, Outlet

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• Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Beer, Sorrow, Drink

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• We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Humorous, Beer, Men

  Song: The Great Filling Station Holdup

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• Beer has long been the prime lubricant in our social intercourse and the sacred throat-anointing fluid that accompanies the ritual of mateship. To sink a few cold ones with the blokes is both an escape and a confirmation of belonging.

  Rennie Ellis

  Food, Beer, Long

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• Keep your libraries, your penal institutions, your insaneasylums... give me beer.You think man needs rule, he needs beer. The world does not need morals, it needs beer... The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles, but the soul could make use of beer.

  Henry Miller

  Beer, Men, Thinking

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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

  Beer, Dust, Sky

  Last Poems (1922) no. 9

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• Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

  A. E. Housman

  Beer, Sky, Ale

  Last Poems (1922) no. 9

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• I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

  Jack Kerouac

  Suicide, Drinking, Beer

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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, Beer, Labels

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• A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Beer, Whiskey, Drink

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.367, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1819). “The Posthumous and Other Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.290

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• It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

  Martin Luther

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Dirty, Food

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• You sit back in the darkness, nursing your beer, breathing in that ineffable aroma of the old-time saloon: dark wood, spilled beer, good cigars, and ancient whiskey - the sacred incense of the drinking man.

  Bruce Aidells

  Humorous, Drinking, Nursing

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• A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

  Paracelsus

  Beer, Medicine, Littles

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• Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.

  Wilhelm II

  Funny, Kings, Women

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• Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!

  Louis Untermeyer

  Funny, Drinking, Beer

  Louis Untermeyer (1930). “Blue Rhine, Black Forest: A Hand- & Day-book”

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• He that drinks fast, pays slow.
  Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
  There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

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• We brewers don't make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the beer makes itself.

  Fritz Maytag

  Beer, Together, Ingredients

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• Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.

  Winston Churchill

  Drinking, Book, Party

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Triumph and Tragedy”, p.613, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.

  Martin Luther

  Strong, Drinking, Food

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