Irish Beer Quotes

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

Ernest Hemingway

Funny, Witty, Clever

Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

Ernest Hemingway

Book, Drinking, Beer

Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

Humphrey Bogart

Drinking, Book, Beer

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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Abraham Lincoln

Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth

Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the bible says love your enemy.

Frank Sinatra

Love, Bible, Sarcastic

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Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.

Kinky Friedman

Beauty, Philosophy, Drinking

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In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here.

Frank Yankovic

Beer, Heaven, Irish Drinking

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Until we meet again, may the good Lord take a liking to you.

Roy Rogers

Farewell, May, Irish Drinking

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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, Beer

Ginger Man (1955) ch. 31

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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

Book, Drinking, Beer

Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Witty, Work

Quoted in Frank Harris, Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (1916)

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Drinking beer doesn't make you fat, it makes you lean...Against bars, tables, chairs, and poles.

Gerard Way

Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

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Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

Henry Lawson

Party, Drinking, Beer

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In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I'm sorry, did I say 'scientists'? I meant Irish people.

Tina Fey

Funny, Sorry, Party

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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

Winston Churchill

Military, Drinking, Taken

In Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11

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It's better to spend money like there's no tomorrow than to spend tonight like there's no money.

P. J. O'Rourke

Funny, Money, Ireland And The Irish

P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People”, p.288, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

William Butler Yeats

Drinking, Food, Humor

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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Jack Lemmon

Funny, Music, Morning

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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

Brendan Behan

Summer, Beer, Winter

"Brendan Behan Dies in Dublin", www.nytimes.com. March 21, 1964.

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May the saddest day of your future be no worse than the happiest day of your past.

P.B. Kerr

Blessing, Past, May

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God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Food, Godly, Beer

Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

Funny, Sarcastic, Witty

Lady Windermere's Fan act 1 (1892) See Balzac 1; Clementina Graham 1; Mae West 19; Wilde 25

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This world has angels all too few, and heaven is overflowing.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Inspirational, Angel, Blessing

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1854). “The complete works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: With an introductory essay upon his philosophical and theological opinions”, p.147

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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, Beer, Men

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St. Patrick... one of the few saints whose feast day presents the opportunity to get determinedly whacked and make a fool of oneself all under the guise of acting Irish.

Charles Madigan

Beer, Opportunity, Acting

"Patrick,we Hardly Knew Ye". articles.chicagotribune.com. March 14, 1997.

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