Beer Quotes

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  Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Funny, Witty, Clever

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.

  Dylan Thomas

  Wall, Glasses, White

  Dylan Thomas (1986). “The Collected Stories”, p.211, New Directions Publishing

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  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.

  Charles Bukowski

  Drinking, Order, Addiction

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• I don't think I've drunk enough beer to understand that.

  Terry Pratchett

  Drinking, Thinking, Drunk

  Terry Pratchett (1998). “The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel”, Harpercollins

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• Isn't beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?

  Milan Kundera

  Funny, Hypocrisy, Fans

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• It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life And Love, Book, Athlete

  Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy

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• Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

  George Crabbe

  Wine, Proud, Fancy

  'Inebriety' (in imitation of Pope, 1775) pt. 1, l. 132.

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• When I left Nashville I went to Texas because that's where I came from, and because I was playing in Texas a lot in different places. And I saw hippies and rednecks drinking beer together and smoking dope together and having a good time together and I knew it was possible to get all groups of people together - long hair, short hair, no hair - and music would bring them together.

  Willie Nelson

  Hippie, Drinking, Redneck

  "Willie Nelson: 'If We Made Marijuana Legal, We'd Save a Whole Lotta Money and Lives'" by Michael Hann, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2012.

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• [...] beer results in ideas, which results in new code.

  Theo de Raadt

  Ideas, Results, Code

  "Theo de Raadt Responds". bsd.slashdot.org. December 11, 2000.

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• You don't consume craft beers in great quantities just to get loaded; you consume craft beers because you like the taste of the beer. People are asking for beer based on what they're eating, which is quite a change from the way it was.

  Bruce McDonald

  People, Asking, Crafts

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• If only Ed Fleming had a mother who gave such sound advice. The manager of Wazoo's, a downtown Denver restaurant, Fleming is a CSU alum who has been darned giddy about the Rams' recent success. So giddy that he donned a necklace made of Pez candies, a red blazer - and nothing else. A few people gaped (some actually set aside their beers), but most ignored Fleming as he strutted like a red-blazered rooster, demanding that all hail the Mighty Naked Beer King.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Mother, Kings, People

  "Going Gonzo In Ft. Collins". The Rocky Mountain News, October 23, 1994.

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• Drinking beer in a children's playground is an old Soviet tradition.

  Sergei Lukyanenko

  Children, Drinking, Tradition

  Sergei Lukyanenko (2013). “The New Watch: (Night Watch 5)”, p.195, Random House

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• For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Ale, Vegetarian

  Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Even on the Serengeti, it ain't a barbecue if there ain't some kind of beer.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Drinking, Kind, Barbecue

  "Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown", www.cnn.com. October 26, 2014.

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• Bruges is a beautiful medieval city almost untouched by time. If you like jazz, you will be well catered for. If you like chocolate and beer, you will be in heaven.

  James Frain

  Beautiful, Cities, Heaven

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• On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Victory, Needs, Defeat

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• 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

  Sylvia Plath

  Moon, Laughing, Wish

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• I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Meals, Eating

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• I think this would be a good time for a beer.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Thinking, Would Be, Good Times

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• A little bit of beer is divine medicine.

  Paracelsus

  Medicine, Littles, Divine

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• I don't care what kind it is, just get me a beer.

  Prince Philip

  Royal, Care, Classic

  "Prince Philip gaffes: The Duke of Edinburgh's best jokes and witticisms over the years" by Nick Gutteridge, www.express.co.uk. July 16, 2015.

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  The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Drinking, Book, Drunk

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• Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer.

  Frederick The Great

  Drinking, Coffee, Soldier

  "Alcohol in the Western World" by Bert L. Vallée, Scientific American, Volume 278, No. 6, pp. 80-85, ru.scribd.com. June 1998.

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• Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Drinking, Alcohol, Ale

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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