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"Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer."
"A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward."
"If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known."
"Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort."
"I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."
"Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women? The sun, the moon, and the stars have been worshiped. Shall we then pluck them out of the sky? ...see how much he [God] has been able to accomplish through me, though I did no more than pray and preach. The Word did it all. Had I wished I might have started a conflagration at Worms. But while I sat still and drank beer with Philip and Amsdorf, God dealt the papacy a mighty blow."
"I definitely feel closer to the feminine side of the human being than I do the male - or the American idea of what a male is supposed to be. Just watch a beer commercial and you'll see what I mean."
"Good people drink good beer."
"Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it."
"If the headache would only precede the intoxication, alcoholism would be a virtue."
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
"God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation."
"There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass that is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty. The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?"
"I have always loved marijuana. It has been a source of joy and comfort to me for many years. And I still think of it as a basic staple of life, along with beer and ice and grapefruits - and millions of Americans agree with me."
"I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world."
"I recommend...bread, meat, vegetables, and beer."
"Ask most kids about details about Auschwitz or about how the American Indians were assassinated as a people and they don't know anything about it. They don't want to know anything. Most people just want their beer or their soap opera or their lullaby."
"I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion."
"Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health."
"There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern."
