"Everybody is using coffee. If possible, this must be prevented. My people must drink beer."
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"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."
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
"Everybody thinks I drink beer but I actually like cider!"
"Beer is proof that God wants us to be happy"
"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."
"A Centaur has a man-stomach and a horse-stomach. And of course both want breakfast. So first of all he has porridge and pavenders and kidneys and bacon and omlette and cold ham and toast and marmalade and coffee and beer. And after that he tends to the horse part of himself by grazing for an hour or so and finishing up with a hot mash, some oats, and a bag of sugar. That's why it's such a serious thing to ask a Centaur to stay for the weeekend. A very serious thing indeed."
"If I had to think of what I would do different in my whole career, it's that I never would have picked up a beer, bottle of vodka. That definitely changed my life. That is an Achilles' heel for me."
"Cold beer is bottled God."
"Let a man walk ten miles steadily on a hot summer's day along a dusty English road, and he will soon discover why beer was invented."
"For a quart of ale is a dish for a king."
"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."
"I tell you, Mr. Okada, a cold beer at the end of the day is the best thing life has to offer. Some choosy people say that a too cold beer doesn't taste good, but I couldn't disagree more. The first beer should be so cold you can't even taste it. The second one should be a little less chilled, but I want that first one to be like ice. I want it to be so cold my temples throb with pain. This is my own personal preference of course."
"You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand..."
"I don't drink these days. I am allergic to alcohol and narcotics. I break out in handcuffs."
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
"There are more old drunks than there are old doctors."