quotations about beer
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
Dave Barry's Bad Habits
They who drink beer will think beer.
WASHINGTON IRVING
The Sketch Book
Instead of water we got here a draught of beer, which, it was allowed, would be better; clear and thin, but strong and stringent as the cedar sap. It was as if we sucked at the very teats of Nature's pine-clad bosom in these parts ... a lumberer's drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once.
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
The Maine Woods
Let beer be for those who are perishing, wine for those who are in anguish! Let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 31:6-7
Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.
THOMAS PYNCHON
Gravity's Rainbow
A man who lies about beer makes enemies.
STEPHEN KING
Pet Sematary
The beer tastes good to my throat, cold and bitter, and the three boys and the beer and the queer freeness of the situation makes me feel like laughing forever. So I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can. I am looking very healthy and flushed and bright-eyed, having both a good tan and a rather excellent fever.
SYLVIA PLATH
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes
I've figured out an alternative to giving up my beer. Basically, we become a family of traveling acrobats.
HOMER SIMPSON
The Simpsons
If you are tired and downhearted, take a drink; but this does not mean being a pig and doing nothing but gorging and swilling.
MARTIN LUTHER
sermon, May 18, 1539
All right. It turns out shutting down the government of the state of Minnesota also means shutting off all Minnesotans' access to beer. Seriously. It's like what you'd invent in a cartoon to give Minnesota a sense of urgency on ending the shutdown. No more beer until this all gets done.
RACHEL MADDOW
The Rachel Maddow Show, Jul. 13, 2011
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
The Real Frank Zappa Book
Beer ... now there's a temporary solution.
HOMER SIMPSON
The Simpsons
Wine is a mocker and beer is a brawler; whoever is led astray by them is not wise.
KING SOLOMON
Proverbs 20:1
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
Dave Barry's Bad Habits
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
ANNE SEXTON
"For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God"
All right, brain, you don't like me, and I don't like you, but let's just get me through this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.
HOMER SIMPSON
The Simpsons
The beer is only half as good without the foam.
VANN CHOW
The Kiss of the Pachinko Girl
Beer, brewed in cauldrons the size of houses by machines and then served cold. It has no soul. It isn't worthy of the name.
JIM BUTCHER
Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files
Where does one not find that bland degeneration which beer produces in the spirit!
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
Twilight of the Idols