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"Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer."
"I fear the man who drinks water and so remembers this morning what the rest of us said last night"
"Give an Irishman lager for a month and he's a dead man. An Irishman's stomach is lined with copper, and the beer corrodes it. But whiskey polishes the copper and is the saving of him."
"Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise."
"No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot."
"Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini."
"I think this would be a good time for a beer."
"Terence O'Ryan heard him and straightway brought him a crystal cup full of the foaming ebon ale which the noble twin brothers Bungiveagh and Bungardilaun brew ever in their divine alevats, cunning as the sons of deathless Leda. For they garner the succulent berries of the hop and mass and sift and bruise and brew them and they mix therewith sour juices and bring the must to the sacred fire and cease not night or day from their toil, those cunning brothers, lords of the vat."
"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before."
"Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die."
"Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness."
"If beer got any lighter you could raise goldfish in it."
"He that drinks fast, pays slow. Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. There can't be good living where there is not good drinking."
"Fermentation may have been a better invention than fire."
"I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum."
"Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome."
"There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer."
"There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says 'Good people drink good beer.' Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see: Bad people drink bad beer. Think about it."
"A meal of bread, cheese and beer constitutes the perfect food."