"Whiskey just naturally likes me but beer likes me better."
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"Everybody's old enough for a beer, ain't that right, Mule?"
"Here with my beer I sit, while golden moments flit: alas! They pass unheeded by: and as they fly, I, being dry, sit idly sipping here, my beer."
"No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame."
"Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon."
"If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues."
"If you rise in life, you have to behave in a certain way. You can go to a strip club if you're a beer-swilling sand shoveler, but if you're the Bishop of Boston, you shouldn't go."
"But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray."
"She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it's there, because it can't hurt, and because what difference does it make?"
"Listening to someone who brews their own beer is like listening to a religious fanatic talk about the day he saw the light."
"I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can"
"My goal is to hit the gym every day I'm on vacation. Usually I just end up sleeping and drinking beer."
"Why was I born with such contemporaries?"
"Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water."
"Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor."
"Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink."
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
"We're wanted men, we'll strike again, but first let's have a beer."
"It may be healthier to eat beer and franks with cheer and thanks, than to eat sprouts and bread with doubts and dread."
"The other day, I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers."