Some mighty important and well-known folks have spouted off whilst partaking of their favorite beverage. Sit back & enjoy these quotes about quaffs!
"Whoever makes poor beer is transferred to the dung hill." -- 11th-century Danzig, Poland, City Ordinance
"The selling of bad beer is a crime against Christian love." -- 13th-century Augsburg, Germany, City Ordinance
"When men drink, then they are rich and successful and win lawsuits and are happy and help their friends." -- Aristophanes
"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
"Beer that is not drunk has missed its vocation" -- Meyer Breslau
"No soldier can properly fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer." -- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
"Most people hate the taste of beer -- to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome." -- Winston Churchill
"If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs."-- David Daye
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy." -- Benjamin Franklin
"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." -- Alexander Hamilton
"It was as natural as eating and to me as necessary, and I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking...beer." -- Ernest Hemingway
"Another one of them new worlds. No beer, no women, no pool parlors, no nothin'." -- Earl Holliman (in the film Forbidden Planet)
"They who drink beer will think beer." -- Washington Irving
"Okay: the last one to kill a bad guy buys the beer." -- Matt LeBlanc (in the film Lost in Space)
"He who has not been at a tavern knows not what a paradise it is." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"I'm allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse -- I could be allergic to beer." -- Greg Norman
"He was a wise man who invented beer." -- Plato
"What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today!" -- Edgar Allan Poe
"From man's sweat and God's love, beer came into the world." -- St. Arnulf, Bishop of Metz
"Ah, beer. My one weakness. My Achilles' Heel, if you will." -- Homer Simpson
"I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer." -- Homer Simpson
"I recommend bread, meat, vegetables, and beer." -- Sophocles
"Whiskey? That'd be too warm; it gets your blood up. Porter's the very thing." -- Harry Tyler (in the film The Quiet Man)
"Give me a woman who loves beer, and I will conquer the world." -- Kaiser Wilhelm
"While beer brings gladness, don't forget that water only makes you wet." -- Harry Leon Wilson
"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?" -- Stephen Wright
"For any country to be a country, you have to have an air force, a football team, and a beer. You can get by without the air force and the football team, but you have to have a beer." -- Frank Zappa
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