Beer Quotes

"Oh, lager beer! It makes good cheer, and proves the poor man's worth; It cools the body through and through, and regulates the health."
- Anonymous

"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

"Beer will always have a definite role in the diet of an individual and can be considered a cog in the wheel of nutritional foods."
- Bruce Carlton

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
- Benjamin Franklin

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway

" They who drink beer will think beer."
- Washington Irving

"One of the hallmarks of the baby boomer generation is that it doesn't live like the previous generation. It hasn't yet given up jeans and T-shirts or beer."
- Ron Klugman, SVP, Coors Brewing

"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, and beer."
- Abraham Lincoln

" You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
- Dean Martin

"Whoever serves beer or wine watered down, he himself deserves in them to drown."
- Medieval plea for pure libations

"May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you're dead."
- Old Irish Toast

"A bar is better than a newspaper for public discussion."
- Jim Parker, on the importance of a healthy pub culture

"He was a wise man who invented beer."
- Plato

"Brewers enjoy working to make beer as much as drinking beer instead of working."
- Harold Rudolph

"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."
- Frank Sinatra

"Who does not love beer, wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long."
- Carl Worner

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."
- Henny Youngman

"Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder."
- Anonymous

"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
- Humphrey Bogart

"The sum of the matter is, the people drink because they wish to drink."
- Rudolph Brand

"It was as natural as eating and, to me, as necessary. I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer."
- Ernest Hemingway

"Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!"
- Louis Untermeyer

"In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer."
- A.J.P. Taylor, British historian