ARMiller's Beer Sayings

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These beer sayings were found on the beer news groups: Rec.food.drink.beer, Alt.beer, and Rec.crafts.brewing

• 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
• Bavarian monks brewed double bocks as sustenance for their Lenten fasts. Since they were allowed drink but no food, they developed a nourishing, high-alcohol beer.
• Nothing quenches the thirst like a wheat beer, or sharpens the appetite like an India pale ale. Nothing goes as well with seafood as a dry porter or stout, or accompanies chocolate like an imperial stout. Nothing soothes like a barley wine. These are just a few of the specialty styles of beer. -- Michael Jackson
• So popular is beer, the world's best-selling alcoholic drink, that it is often taken for granted. Yet scientific analysis shows that a glass of beer has within it as many aromas and flavors as fine wine. Not everyone understands this, but an increasing number of people do. -- Michael Jackson
• Whoever makes a poor beer is transferred to the dung-hill. -- Edict, City of Danzig, 11th Century
• Beer drinking doesn't do half the harm as love-making. -- 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

  A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. -- William Blake

  Beer is proof that God loves us. -- Ben Franklin

  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

  For a quart of Ale is a dish for a King. -- Shakespeare (A Winter's Tale)

  I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety. --William Shakespeare (King Henry V)

  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 BC

  Work is the curse of the drinking classes. -- Oscar Wilde

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

  I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy. -- Tom Waits

  Beer is good food. -- John Goodman

  All other nations are drinking Ray Charles beer and we are drinking Barry Manilow. -- Dave Barry

  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's Bad Habits

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

  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.

  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 Ray

  Draft beer, not people.

  Hey, bartender, a thousand pints of light! -- Second City Players

  The last swallow of lager is the worst and the last swallow of an ale is the best.

  Beauty lies in the hands of the beerholder.

Also see: Toasts, Blessings, and Sayings

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Revised: April 18, 2007