Beer Quotes

Whoever makes a poor beer is transferred to the dung-hill.

        Edict, City of Danzig, 11th Century

Beer drinkin don't do half the harm as love-makin.

        Anonymous

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable

        John Ciardi (1916-1986)

Give me a woman who truly loves beer, and I will conquer the world.

        Kaiser Wilhelm II (1859-1941)

He who drinks beer sleeps well.

He who sleeps well cannot sin.

He who does not sin goes to heaven.

Amen.

        Unknown German Monk

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the

ale-house in church.

        Martin Luther (1483-1546)

The selling of bad beer is a crime against Christian love.

        Law, the City of Augsburg, 13th Century

It is my design to die in the brew-house; let ale be placed to my mouth

when I am expiring, that when the choirs of angels come, they may say,

"Be God propitious to this drinker."

        Saint Columbanus, A.D. 612

From man's sweat and God's love, beer came into the world.

        Saint Arnoldus

God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly

as he loves vegetation.

        Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

There are more old drunks than old doctors.

        Anonymous

Of doctors and medicines we have in plenty more than enough...what you

may, for the Love of God, send is some large quantity of beer.

        Dispatch from the Colony, New South Wales, 1854

The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and -- therefore -- to

some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing

shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be.

        George Orwell (1903-1950)

Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

        Henry Lawson

Wine is but single broth, ale is meat, drink, and cloth.

        16th Century English Proverb

At social parties no gentleman ever thought of leaving the table sober;

the host would have considered it a slight on his hospitality.

        F.W. Hackwood, comment on manners, 18th Century England

Beer..."a high and mighty liquor"

        Julius Caesar

Of beer an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some

brands might be better than others...

        A.A. Milne

Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never

stop hoping otherwise.

        Curt Vonnegut, Jr., Hocus Pocus, 1990

He is not deserving the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale,

that is, good ale.

        George Borrow (1803-1881)

Ere's to English women an' a quart of English beer.

        Rudyard Kipling

There's nothing as heartening as the sight of an empty pub in the

morning, the shelves full and everything spick and span before the

barbarian hordes come in. Them that drinks bottles spoil the look of

the shelves but draught is a different story - you never see the barrel

going down.

        Patrick McGinley

No poems can live long or please that are written by

water-drinkers.

        Horace 65-8 B.C.

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