Beer quotes
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"The whole world is drunk and we're just the cocktail of the moment. Someday soon, the world will wake up, down two aspirin with a glass of tomato juice, and wonder what the hell all the fuss was about."
"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."
"A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation."
"Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to."
"Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."
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"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."
"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy."
"My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them."
"I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
"I once shook hands with Pat Boone, and my whole right side sobered up!"
"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger."
"I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer."
"Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world."
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen."
"I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something."
"I never was a crazy liquor drinker, and I don't like beer that much - though I keep the brews at home because my homies love beer."
"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
"Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer."
"His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy."
"On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it."
"It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church."
"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy."
