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Beer & Quality

"A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure"

-Czech Proverb

"People who drink light 'beer' don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee alot"
-Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

“Whoever serves beer watered down, he himself deserves in them to drown"
-Midieval plea for pure libations 

"Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine"
-David Moulton

"We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old"
-Martin Luther

"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

"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

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

"[I recommend]… bread, meat, vegetables and beer"
-Sophocles' philosophy of a moderate diet

"Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire"
-David Rains Wallace

"Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer"
-Henry Lawson

"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

"Beer: So much more than just a breakfast drink"
-Whitstran Brewery sign

"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, the Beer Hunter

"Life is too short to drink cheap beer"

–Anonymous

"Do not cease to drink beer, to eat, to intoxicate thyself, to make love, and to celebrate the good days"

-Ancient Egyptian Credo

"The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer"

-Ancient Egyptian wisdom

Beer & God

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

"If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs"
-David Daye

"God made pot. Man made beer. Who do you trust?"
-Restroom in The Irish Times, Washington DC

"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the lord intended a more divine means of consumption... beer!
-Robin Hood, Prince of thieves

"From man's sweat and god's love, beer came into the world"
-Saint Arnold of Metz, The patron saint of brewers

"God made yeast, as well as dough, and he loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson 

Beer & Life

"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'"
-Deep Thought, Jack Handy

"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

"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'm going to buy a boat... do a little travelling, and I'm going to be drinking beer!"
-John Welsh, Brooklyn bus driver who won $30 million in the New York lottery

"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?"
-Stephen Wright

"Spilling your beer is the worst form of alcohol abuse"
-Unknown

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

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

"Beer that is not drunk had missed its vocation"
-Meyer Breslauoverb.         

"The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work"
-Mark Twain

"I work until beer o'clock"
-Stephen King

Beer & women

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

"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"

-Homer Simpson

"There's damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer"

-Jimmy Buffett

"Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world"
-Kaiser Welhelm

"Pretty women make us BUY beer. Ugly women make us DRINK beer"

-Al Bundy

"Women and drink. Too much of either can drive you to the other"
-Michael Still

"I've always thought why no one has made a women's perfume to smell like beer. I know that would turn me on"
-Nate Sampson 

Beer & Politics

"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 to his Secretary of War, 1944 

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

"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into"
-Don Marquis

"Give my people plenty of beer, good beer and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution"

-Queen Victoria

"For we could not now take time for further search (to land our ship), our victuals being much spent, especially our beer."
-From the log of the "Mayflower"

"The government will fall that raises the price of beer"

-Czech Saying

"What event is more awfully important to an English colony than the erection of its first brewhouse?"

-Reverend Sidney Smith

"Whiskey and Beer are a man's worst enemies... but the man that runs away from his enemies is a coward!"

-Zeca Pagodinho  

"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