Bad Jim’s Famous Ultimate Collection of Famous and Infamous Beer: Quotes, Lyrics, Proverbs and Poems
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[I’ve collected these over the years from books, magazines, pub walls, memory, and yes, the Internet. – Bad Jim
PS: Yeah, I don’t know who half these people are either!]
Beer Quotes
First recorded mention of the word "ALE" occurred around 950 A.D. in the Old
Norse Alvismal:
Ale it is called among men, and among gods, beer.
a. a. milne, (1880-1956) English children’s writer
Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.
A.E. Housman (1859-1936), British poet
A Shropshire Lad, 1887
Say, for what were hop-yards meant,
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of England brews
Livelier liquor than the Muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God's ways to man.
Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think:
Look into the pewter pot
To see the world as the world's not.
And faith, 'tis pleasant till 'tis past:
The mischief is that 'twill not last.
Oh I have been to Ludlow fair
And left my necktie God knows where,
And carried half way home, or near,
Pints and quarts of Ludlow beer
Last Poems, no. 9 (1922)
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.J.P. Taylor, British historian (1906–1990)
In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer.
Al Capone, gangster and beer distributor
I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.
The public is a guy who wants his shot and a glass of beer.
Alan Eames (paraphrased), cultural anthropologist
This is all thousands of years old. It's the same the world over. Anyone who has ever walked upright has loved beer, celebrated over it, told talks over it, hatched plots over it, courted over it. It's what we do as a species. It's what makes us human. We brew.
Allen Tate (1899–1979), U.S. poet and critic, Perimeters
Hide your pink knees from the gaze of other men.
You must be pure — go slow with that home-brew.
The moralizing tendency and salubrious nature of fermented liquors -- beer, ale, porter, and cider -- recommend them to a serious consideration and particularly in our country.
American folk saying
The best place to drink beer is at home. Or on a river bank, if the fish don't bother you.
Amy Semple McPherson, Women's Christian Temperance Union
The devil is in you.
Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
American poet, For Eleanor Boylan Talking with God
God has a
brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
Anonymous/unknown
A great Palindrome: Lager, sir, is regal.
And on the seventh day, God made beer.
Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder.
Beer contains Vitamin Pee
Beer has food value, but food has no beer value.
Beer is good; drink it.
Beer is made by fermentation cause by bacteria feeding on yeast cells and then defecating. In other words, it's a nice tall glass of bacteria doo-doo.
Beer is the fountain of happiness, we should not question its power, but blindly frolic in its foamy ways.
Beer: Because one doesn't solve the world's problems over white wine.
Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 1862!
Beer: If you can’t taste it, why bother!
Beer: its not just for breakfast anymore.
Beer: Natures laxative.
Beer: Take pure spring water. The finest grains. The richest ingredients. And then run them through a horse.
Cenosillicaphobia - Fear of an empty glass.
Cold War bad. Cold BEER good.
Draft beer, not people!
E
equals mc squared is a hell of a concept, but can you use it to make beer?
Everyone needs to believe in something. I believe I'll have another beer.
Everything I wanted to know about life I learned from beer.
Friends don’t let friends drink Light Beer.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day. Give a man a beer, and he wastes an hour, but teach a man how to brew, and he wastes a lifetime.
Hold my beer while I kiss your girlfriend.
I killed a six-pack just to watch it die.
I think someone should invent Beerguard, because how often do you actually spill Scotch on the carpet?
If I had a nickel for every beer that I have had through my life...I'd have a lot of money for more beer!
If nothing beats a Bud, given the choice, Id take the nothing...
It’s better to have beer in hand than gas in tank.
Life is too short to drink cheap beer.
Milk
Sucks, Got Beer?
Most regional breweries are patronized by people who knit their own yogurt.
My favorite black-and-tan is a "mother-in-law": a mixture of stout and bitter.
Never mix beer and hard liquor.... unless you've only got one glass.
One pint of beer ... equals 1/2 college credit in philosophy.
Over the past few
years, scientists at Heinz say they've been developing what they say is a
revolutionary new kind of baby bottle. It's a baby bottle actually shaped like a
woman's breasts. If that's true, forget baby bottles, make beer bottles.
Remember "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.
Some people have six pack abdomens. I have a keg.
The best days to drink beer are days that end in the letter, "Y".
The last swallow of lager is the worst and the last swallow of an ale is the best.
There
are only two times when I drink beer, when I'm alone and when I'm with someone
else.
There are those who drink and those who pound,
and those who don’t are bound to frown.
No matter what you say or what you do,
Always cheer your frosty brew!
They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.
To some it’s a six-pack, to me its a Support Group.
Two hands and only one mouth...now that's a drinking problem.
When it comes to physical fitness - Why have a six pack when you can have a barrel?
Thirsty days hath September,
April, June and November;
All the rest are thirsty too
Except for him who hath home brew.
--
Who'd care
to be a bee and sip
Sweet honey from the flower's lip
When he might be a fly and steer
Head first into a can of beer?
--
In
Vino Veritas
In Cervesio Felicitas
(In wine there is wisdom, In beer there is joy.)
--
Some
Guinness was spilt on the barroom floor
When the pub was shut for the night.
When out of his hole crept a wee brown mouse
And stood in the pale moonlight.
He lapped up the frothy foam from the floor
Then back on his haunches he sat.
And all night long, you could hear the mouse roar,
"Bring on the friggin' cat!
--
Beer Prayer
Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hallowed be thy drink.
Thy will be drunk, (I will be drunk), At home as it is in the pub.
Give us this day our foamy head, And forgive us our spillages, As we forgive
those who spill against us.
And lead us not to incarceration, But deliver us from hangovers.
For
thine is the beer, The bitter, The lager.
Forever and ever,
Barmen.
Here's to beauty, wit, and beer, and to a full stomach, a full purse, and a light heart.
Here's a toast to the roast that good fellowship lends,
With the sparkle of beer and wine;
May its sentiment always be deeper, my friends,
Than the foam at the top of the stein.
Some people see the glass half-empty. Some people see the glass half full. I say its beer man, just drink it!
For
every wound, a balm.
For every sorrow, cheer.
For every storm, a calm.
For every thirst, a beer.
Irish toast
Here's to a long life, and a merry one; a quick death, and an easy one; a pretty girl, and an honest one; a cold beer - and another one!
Anonymous, These words were scribbled in the flyleaf of a paperback copy of Tristram Shandy bought in the second-hand bookstore in Alice Springs, Australia.
One of the few moments of happiness a man knows in Australia is that moment of meeting the eyes of another man over the tops of two beer glasses.
A man is not drunk so long as he can lie on the floor without holding on.
Aristophanes, Athenian playwright, (448-380 B.C.)
When people drink, then they are successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends. Quickly, bring me a beaker of cider, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (b.1947), Austrian actor, 1975
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
Art “Fatso” Donovan, defensive tackle, Baltimore Colts (1950s)
The best way to die is sit under a tree, eat lots of bologna and salami, drink a case of beer, then blow up.
Lady (Nancy) Astor (1864 - 1945), American-born social reformist and member of the British parliament
“I
would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.”
A voice from the crowd: “Who wouldn't?”
Bad Jim (b.1950) , American homebrewer & general douche bag
If I drank 6 pints of barley wine in the forest and no one was around, would a tree still fall down?
Barney Gumbal, cartoon character on The Simpsons
Ahhhhhhhh!!! Natural light!!! Get it off me!!!
I'm worried about the beer supply. After this case and the other case - we only got one case left.
Buy me a beer, two bucks a glass.
Come on, help me, I'm freezing my ass.
Buy me brandy, a snifter of wine.
Who am I kidding? I'll drink turpentine.
Ben Johnson(1572-1637), English writer ,
Every Man in his Humour. Act II
As he brews so shall he drink.
Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy.
A toast in Bedrich Smetana’s 1866 opera The Bartered Bride
You foam within our glasses, you lusty golden brew, whoever imbibes takes fire from you. The young and the old sing your praises; here’s to beer, here’s to cheer, here’s to beer.
The Bible, New International Version, Proverbs 31:6-7
Give beer to those who are perishing, wine to those who are in anguish; let them drink and forget their poverty and remember their misery no more
Beer is not
a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the
bathroom is.
Bishop John Still (1543-1607)
Back
and side go bare, go bare,
Both foot and hand go cold;
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.
If you can make oatmeal cookies at home, you can brew beer.
Bob and Doug McKenzie (from the film Strange Brew)
Yeah ok, well we found this mouse in a bottle of YOUR
beer, eh, and we was at a party and a friend of ours, a cop, had some and HE
PUKED and he said come here and get free beer, or uh, he'll press charges.
My brother always said that drowning in beer would be like heaven . . .
I’m takin’ you to the looney bin, then I’m going to the brewery.
There's no way I'll crash this! This is a beer truck,
eh!
You know people can tell what's in beer, eh? Like, my
brother can tell the difference between beers by what his burps taste like.
This movie was shot in 3-B – three beers and it looks
good.
Bobby Clarke, President, Philadelphia Flyers; NHL Hall of Famer
This isn't the old days when everybody sat around and drank beer.
On the chest
of a barmaid in Sale,
Were tattooed the prices of ale.
And on her behind
for the sake of the blind
was the same information in Braille.
Brian Tong, ????
I like to cap off my night of beer drinking with a beer, its kinda like dessert.
Brock Wagner, brewer-owner, St. Arnold Brewing Co., Houston, TX
If you are doing this just because you want to make money, your beer has no soul.
Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI
People who drink light beer don’t like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot.
Men are nicotine soaked, beer-besmirched, whisky greased, red-eyed devils.
Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), American poet
. . . We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Dickens (1812- 1870), English novelist, Ye Olde Curiosity Shop, 1841
“Did you
ever taste beer?”
“I had a sip of it once,” said the small servant.
“Here’s a state of things!” cried Mr. Swiveller . . .
“She never tasted it -- it can’t be tasted in a sip!”
Sir Charles Gavan Duffy (1816-1903), Irish-Australian statesman and author
The horse and mule live thirty years
And never know of wine and beers.
Christian Reuter (1665-1712), German writer of satiric fiction
It is a perfect brew that makes you feel exactly like preaching a sermon.
Christopher Howse
Real ale fans are just like train-spotters, only drunk.
Chuck Skypeck, Boscos breweries, Tennnessee
After watching Conan O'Brien's sophomoric behavior while interviewing Michael Jackson on his show this week, I have come to the conclusion that you can judge the level of a man's intellect simply by saying the word "beer" and watching his reaction.
Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.
Confesio, Archpoet, 12th century
When
the hour is nigh me,
Let me in a tavern die,
With a tankard by me.
Commonwealth Brewing Co., Boston, Massachusetts
Let
no man thirst for lack of Real Ale.
The federal government is considering a proposal that would update the warning label on beer and other alcoholic beverages. For instance, one of the new warnings says, 'Caution: Excessive drinking could cause karaoke.
Cornelia Corey, chosen 2001 Beeerdrinker of the Year by Wynkoop Brewing Co.
I don't drink beer like a girl.
C.S. Calverley (1831-1884), English writer
O Beer! O
Hodgson, Guinness, Allsopp, Bass!
Names that should be on every infant’s tongue.
Beer, 1861
Life is with such all beer and skittles;
They are not difficult to please
About their victuals.
Contentment, 1872
Danny Murtaugh, Major League Baseball manager
Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when he's pitching, who throws strikes to any base or the plate when he's playing outfield and who's always thinking about two innings ahead just what he'll do to baffle the other team. Any manager would want a guy like that playing for him. The only trouble is to get him to put down his cup of beer and come down out of the stands and do those things.
Dave Barry, American humorist
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.
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.
When I heated my home with oil, I found that I used an average of 800 gallons per year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.
All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow.
The Circuit: Electricity originates inside clouds. There, it forms into lightning, which is attracted to the Earth by golfers. After entering the ground, the electricity hardens into coal, which, when dug up by power companies and burned in big ovens called 'generators,' turns back into electricity... where it is transformed by TV sets into commercials for beer, which passes through the consumers and back into the ground, thus completing what is known as a 'circuit.'
I like beer. On occasion, I will even drink beer to celebrate a major event such as the fall of communism or the fact that the refrigerator is still working.
Dave Wadsworth, Chemical engineer, 1985
After drinking two dozen Miller High Life longnecks in my garage, I was too drunk to ride my bicycle to The Gingerman Pub, so I drove.
If I was hungry, I'd drink a Guinness.
David Geary
Adhere to Schweinheitsgebot. Don’t put anything in your beer that a pig wouldn’t eat.
David Daye
If God had intended us to drink beer, he would have given us stomachs.
David Moulton
Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.
David Rains Wallace (b.1945), U.S, naturalist and essayist
Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire.
I was a horrible date all through high school and college. Here's an impression of me on a date in high school: ‘Come on, chug it!'
Beer is beer.
Danzig, Poland, City Ordinance circa11th-century
Whoever makes poor beer is transferred to the dunghill.
Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth (in the film Blue Velvet, 1986)
Heineken? Fuck that shit! Pabst Blue Ribbon!
Frank Booth: No I want you to fuck it. Shit, yes, pour the fuckin' beer.
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society, except that which makes the road safer, the old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer, and the beer stronger.
Donald Robert Perry Marquis (1878-1937) New York newspaper columnist and humorist (1927)
Prohibition makes you want to cry in your beer, and denies you the beer to cry into.
Douglas Adams (1952 – 2001), Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
"Six pints of bitter," said Ford Prefect…. "And quickly please, the world's about to end."
…. So the barman said, "Oh yes, sir? Nice weather for it."
Drew Carey, American actor
Things don't make me nearly as happy as talking and having a beer with my friends. And that's something everyone can do.
Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), 34th U.S. President
Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hotdogs.
Earl
Holliman as Cook (in the film Forbidden Planet, 1956)
Another one o’ them
new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, nothin’. Nothing to do but throw
rocks at tin cans. And we gotta bring our own tin cans.
Ed O’Neill as Al Bundy (in the TV show Married with Children)
Give me beer or give me death! Or give me both!
Anyone know who was elected president? Well, who cares? But, whoever you are, read my lips: don't tax beer!!!
Oh mighty one in the heavens who created the mountains, the seas and beer...
Edgar Allan Poe (1809- 1849), American writer
Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chambers of my brain.
Quaintest thoughts--queerest fancies,
Come to life and fade away:
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.
To a lot of people, I'm no longer just Edgar Winter the musician. It's like 'Hey aren't you that guy in the beer commercial.'
17th century English drinking song
He that drinks strong beer, and goes to bed mellow, lives as he ought to live, and dies a hearty fellow.
English drinking song, circa 1757
Let us sing our own treasures, Old England's good cheer,
To the profits and pleasures of stout British beer;
Your wine tippling, dram sipping fellows retreat,
But your beer drinking Britons can never be beat.
The French with their vineyards and meager pale ale,
They drink from the squeezing of half ripe fruit;
But we, who have hop-yards to mellow our ale,
Are rosy and plump and have freedom to boot.
Epitaph on a soldier's grave (source unknown)
Here
sleep in peace a Hampshire grenadier,
Who caught his death by drinking cold small beer;
Soldiers, take heed from his untimely fall,
And when you're hot, drink strong, or not at all.
American Beer is a lot like making love in a row boat- its f__king close to water!
To Have and Have Not
It was as natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking beer.
Hemingway made this remark after seeing David O. Selznick’s remake of A Farewell to Arms (1957): You write a book like that that you’re fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it’s like pissing in your father’s beer.
Flann O’Brien, Irish author, "A pint of plain" in At Swim-Two-Birds (1939)
When
your health is bad and your heart feels strange,
and your face is pale and wan,
When doctors say that you need a change,
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
Frank Jones Brewery Song (c. 1897)
Hurrah for Jones' brewery, may it never fail
Brew us beer and porter and beautiful stock ale,
That's the stuff for me, my boys, it drives away all pain,
Whenever I can get a glass of it I'll have it just the same.
Frank Zappa (1940-1993), American rock musician
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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945), 32nd U.S. President
Said, upon the ratification of the 21st Amendment repealing Prohibition:
I believe this would be a good time for a beer
Freddie Freak, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers, Rip Off Comix
Beer will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no beer.
It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.
It's very hard to get pretentious about beer. You can become knowledgeable and start to talk with a highfalutin' vocabulary. But you can only go so far with beer, and I've always liked that.
Futurama, TV sci-fi cartoon series
Bender: Gimme a large diet malt liquor and a popcorn with extra motor oil.
Gary Barkin
When we got married we registered at Bloomingdale's because you can return everything for cash. And I figure each place setting can keep me in beer money for three months.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Anglo-Irish playwright, Proserpine in Candida, act 3
I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. I don’t like beer.
George Borrow (1803–1881), English writer and traveler, Lavengro, 1851
He is not deserving the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is, good ale.
George Crabbe (1754-1832) English poet
Lo! the poor
topper whose untutored sense,
Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense;
Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer,
Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.
George Du Maurier(1834-1896) French novelist
Life ain’t all beer and skittles, and mores the pity.
George Farquhar (1678–1707), Irish dramatist, the landlord Boniface, in The Beaux’ Stratagem, act 1, sc. 1 (1707)
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
George Orwell (1903–1950), British author. The Art of Donald McGill, 1946
He is your unofficial self, the voice of the belly protesting against the soul, his tastes lie towards safety, soft beds, no work, pots of beer and women with “voluptuous” figures.
13th century German law
The selling of bad beer is a crime against Christian love.
Unknown German Monk
He
who drinks beer sleeps well.
He who sleeps well cannot sin.
He who does not sin goes to heaven.
Amen.
Gilbert Chesterton (1874–1936) British author, New York Times, June 28, 1931
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
Grant Johnson
Beer is an improvement on water itself.
Greg Norman,
professional golfer
I'm allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse -- I could be allergic to beer.
H. Allen Smith (1906-1976), American journalist, author and humorist
(Note: Smith was a contestant in the first ever Chili Cookoff. It was held in Terlingua, Texas in October 1967 with the judges declaring a draw between H. Allen Smith and Wick Fowler.)
After he drank his first American beer at a bar:
Put it back in the horse!
Harry Tyler as Pat Cohan (in the film The Quiet Man, 1952)
Whiskey? That'd be too warm; it gets your blood up. Porter's the very thing.
Harvey Allen (1889-1949),
U.S. Historian
Religions
change, beer and wine remain.
Heath Ledger as Patrick (in the film 10 Things I hate about You)
Why is everyone so hot for this girl? Has she got beer-flavored nipples?
Henry Aldrich, English composer of church music (1648–1710)
If all be true that I do
think,
There are five reasons we should drink:
Good beer -- a friend -- or being dry --
Or lest we should be by and by --
Or any other reason why.
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862), American philosopher, author & naturalist
Cape Cod , 1855-1865
. . . it seemed to me that man himself was like a half-emptied bottle of pale ale, which Time had drunk so far, yet stoppled tight for a while, and drifting about in the ocean of circumstances, but destined ere-long to mingle with the surrounding waves, or be spilled amid the sands of a distant shore.
Ktaadn, 1848
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 Lawson
Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.
Herman Melville (1819–1891) American author, Redburn, 1849
It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.
I am the first man south of the Mason-Dixon Line to brew a drinkable home-brew. ...
Homer Simpson, cartoon character (doh!)
Ah beer, my one weakness. My Achilles heels if you will.
Bart, a woman is like a beer. They look good, they smell good, and you’d step over your own mother just to get one!
Beer! How did you know?
Homer no function beer well without.
I'd rather have a beer than win 'Father of the Year'
Mmmmmm, beer.
Mmmm, gummy-beer!
Now son, you don't want to drink beer. That's for Daddies, and kids with fake IDs.
You've been rubbing my nose in it since I got here! Your family is better than my family, your beer comes from farther away than my beer, you and your son like each other, your wife's butt is higher than my wife's butt! You make me sick
The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a beer bottle, they're on TV.
The college road trip. What better way to spread beer-fueled mayhem.
You must love this country more than I love a cold beer on a hot Christmas morning.
Marge : And punish Lisa for lying to us.
Homer : Okay, you young lady, now run to Kwik-E-mart and get me some chips and
beer . . .
Hunter S. Thompson, journalist/author
There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.
Cover
a war in a place where you can't drink beer or talk to a woman? Hell no!
Jack Handy, humorist
Sometimes when I reflect back on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn’t drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. Then I say to myself, It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose.
Jack Nicholson as Meadows (in the film The Last Detail)
Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?
Inspector Morse, TV series Inspector Morse on Mystery!
Light beer is an invention of the Prince of Darkness.
Irish love ballad
But the greatest love--the love above all loves, even greater than that of a mother... Is the tender, passionate, undying love, of one beer drunken slob for another.
James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950), Irish poet, A Glass of Beer
If
I asked her master he’d give me a cask a day;
But she, with the beer at hand, not a gill would arrange!
May she marry a ghost and
bear him a kitten, and may
The High King of Glory permit her to get the mange.
Janell Harris
The best beer in the world is the one you’re holding in your hand.
Some guy is
claiming that a tonic of beer and urine will improve your garden. Come on, if
that was true, wouldn't frat houses be like tropical rain forests?
According to a recent study, the most popular fitness sport among Americans is bowling. Is this really a 'fitness' sport? Any sport where you can drink beer and eat pizza while you're doing the sport is not a sport.
The
bear missed the train, the bear missed the train, the bear missed the train and
now he's walkin'.
He's walkin' near and far, he's walkin' far and near, he's walkin' near
and far, HE's DRINKIN' A GLASS O' BEER!
Jeff Morris as Bob (in the film The Blues Brothers, 1980)
. .
. and you boys drank $300 worth of beer.
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson
If Bush is qualified to run the country, [my sons] are qualified to run a beer distributorship.
A “good” beer is one that sells! You may think it sucks but if the market embraces it, so be it. Now a “great” beer or world-class beer is another matter.... ...
The Jim and Dave Radio Show, circa 1984
Our favorite beer is “free” beer!
Jimmy Buffett, American singer/songwriter
Would you really call yourself a Christian if charity cost half as much as beer?
Joe Gural (???)
We’re making the world a better place to drink: one beer at a time.
John Belushi as Bluto Blutarski (in the film Animal House)
My advice to you... is to start drinking heavily.
Until I felt
a filthy swine
For loathing beer and liking wine,
And rotten to the very core
For thinking village inns a bore,
And village bores more sure to roam
To village inns than stay at home.
John
Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
No soldier can properly fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.
John Ciardi, American poet
Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.
John Collier, in The Devil, George, and Rosie
They proceed with the speed of rockets to the northeast corner of the universe, which George perceived to be shaped exactly like a pint of beer, in which the nebulae were the ascending bubbles . . .
John Cusack as Gib (in the film The Sure Thing)
Nick's the kinda guy you drink beers with. The kinda guy that doesn't care if you puke in his car.
Chicago is the largest whore’s beer market in the country.
John Goodman, American actor
Beer is good food.
John Ray
He
that buys land buys many stones,
He that buys flesh buys many bones,
He that buys eggs buys many shells,
But he that buys good ale buys nothing else.
John Shepard
Beer...the mother of all of us.
John Stark Bellamy II, American author, By The Neck Until Dead, chapter 3
It must have been an afternoon of truly heroic drinking; Russell later testified that they had at least 25 glasses of beer and a "Dutchman" present had to be "laid out" when his stamina proved incommensurate with that of his thirsty peers.
John Steinbeck, novelist
There is nothing in the world like the first taste of beer.
John Still, Gammer Gurton's Needle, 1575
Back and side go bare, go bare;
Both foot and hand go cold;
But, belly, God send thee good ale enough,
Whether it be new or old.
Jack Turlington, Texan, as quoted in All About Beer Magazine, November 1998
There’s something about the taste of beer in a large, practically empty, over-air-conditioned theater on an asphalt-melting, glaringly sweltering, hot summer afternoon. In fact, I just saw The Searchers that way. Cold beer, hot popcorn and the psychotic John Wayne character, Ethan Edwards… that’s living.
James Kenneth Stephens (1882–1950), Irish poet, A Glass of Beer
The lanky hank of a she in the inn over there
Nearly killed me for asking the loan of a glass of beer;
May the devil grip the whey-faced slut by the hair
And beat bad manners out of her skin for a year.
A can of beer'd be the makin' of a guy a cold mornin' like this.
J.R.R. Tolkien, English author (1892-1973)
The Lord of the Rings, The Fellowship of the Rings, 1954
Pippin: What's that?
Merry: This, my friend, is a pint.
Sam: Pippin, you've had a whole half already.
Frodo: Go on
Sam, ask Rosie for a dance.
Sam: I think I'll just have another ale.
Sung by and attributed to one Frodo Baggins, Bag End, Hobbiton, in the Shire.
Only a few words of it are now, as a rule, remembered.
The Man in the Moon took another mug,
and rolled beneath his chair;
And there he dozed and dreamed of ale,
Till in the sky the stars were pale,
and dawn was in the air.
J.P. Donleavy, Irish-American Novelist (1923- )
The Ginger Man, 1955
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?
Jules Verne, French writer (1828-1905),
Around The World In 80 Days
. . . some thirty customers were drinking English beer, porter, gin and brandy; smoking, the while, long red clay pipes stuffed with little balls of opium mingled with essence of rose.
Julius Caesar
Beer...a high and mighty liquor.
Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany (1859-1941)
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
Keith Kayler-Thomson, homebrew shop owner, Geelong, Victoria, Australia
There is nothing worse than an empty homebrew bottle.
Ken Jones
Water is good for only two things: floating ships and making beer.
This stuff [beer] is tasty, when did they start making it?
Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise.
Larry Bell, Kalamazoo Brewing Company, Kalamazoo, Michigan, US
If God had wanted us to filter our beer, he wouldn't have given us livers
Larry Leon Wilson (1867-1939), The Spenders
While
beer brings gladness, don't forget
That water only makes you wet.
Larry Wright
Most said you would not live long. And through the years you haven't always been treated kindly. You've been punched, pulled on, kicked, bent double, misprinted and thrown into ditches to fade and rust. Some have even tried to ban you from their states. But you have stood up to the test. And now people are discovering your true beauty, dignity, personality and depth. Be proud, whether you're new, old, rusty, or faded.
You're a Beer Can!
Lewis C. Henry, author, Best Quotations for all Occasions
Here's to life and a merry one, a quick death and a pretty one, a pretty girl and a true one, a cold beer and another one.
Lord Charles Neaves, English author (1800-1876)
Pure
water is the best gifts a man can bring.
But who am I that I should have the best of anything?
Let princes revel at the pump, let peers with ponds make free,
...beer is good enough for me.
Louis Untermeyer, American poet and anthologist (1885-1977)
Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!
Mad Mordigan, Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorn
The wise son brings joy to his father, but the wiser son brings beer.
The wages of the righteous bring them life but the income of the wicked brings them cold beer, fast cars and hot chicks.
Do not join those who drink too much wine. Drink beer, wine is for sissies.
Marge Simpson, cartoon character, The Simpsons
Now Homey, you're getting over-stimulated. Let's go home and get some beer in you and then it's right to bed!
Fruit rollups for Bart. Beer rollups for Homer.
Mark Hawkins in the New York Times, 1977
Show me a nation whose national beverage is beer, and I'll show you an advanced toilet technology.
Mark Twain, American writer, journalist, humorist (1835-1910)
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.
Demagogue — a vessel containing beer and other liquids.
Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we prohibit and abolish women? The sun, moon and the stars have been worshipped; shall we pluck them from the sky? See how much He has done through me even though I just prayed and preach, the Word did it all. If I wanted to, I could have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip in Hahnsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow.
It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.
Marv Levy, NFL coach
All the buildup and hype, everything else, is foam. The game is the beer.
Matt LeBlanc (in the film Lost in Space)
Okay: the last one to kill a bad guy buys the beer.
Mayflower logbook entry, 1620
... For we could not now take time for further search or consideration: our victuals being much spent, especially our beere.
Michael Jackson, BEER Magazine editor
Let's all work to get people to drink more good beer, so if someone walks into your office and says he drinks Corona, don't immediately call him a dickhead.
Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.
My house is about equidistant from the Youngs brewery and the Fullers brewery. This is no accident.
I can't even justify going to South America for beer.
They have a drink in Texas, which is half Bigfoot, and half Sierra Nevada Pale Ale that they call “A Foggy Night in the Sierras.”
[Note from Bad Jim: Sorry Michael, it’s half Old Foghorn and half SNPA.]
I've never homebrewed. I'm never at home.
On the strength of British beer:
It (British beer)is usually not as alcoholic as standard US beer.
Tourist to MJ:"Then why did we get so shit-faced drinking in London?"
MJ: "Shit-faced, a technical term?"
On lawnmower beers: I don't have a lawn. You need something substantial after
mowing the concrete.
Michael McShane as Friar Tuck (in the film Robin Hood - Prince of Thieves, 1991)
This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord has intended a more divine form of consumption. Let us give praise to our maker and glory to His bounty be learning about beer.
Mike Gallagher, radio talk show host, Feb. 1, 2001
The only people who would challenge my belief that it’s time to ban college fraternities are those who are proud, glorious alumni of Tappa Kegga Brew or some other goofy frat. [Note from Bad Jim: Bite me Mike! We all know it’s Tappa Kegga Day.]
Raindrops on roses and whiskers on kittens? Ha! For me, it's 5 or 6 beers while watching the game; getting so drunk I've forgotten my name. These are a few of MY favorite things.