Quotations:
My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. - John Molson, 1786
"We are all members of a larger community which depends on everyone playing a part," John Molson speaking to employees in 1825
"An honest brew makes its own friends," John Molson, and displayed on Molson Canadian packaging today
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molson_Brewery#Quotations)
“In an age when mass pleasures like television are becoming more feeble and homogeneous, the very act of discrimination becomes a form of protest. At a time when mass marketing of food produces a product so disgusting that it has to be wrapped in distracting gimmicks to be sold, the mere fact of paying attention to what you eat and drink and telling the truth about taste is a revolutionary act.”
― Lynn Hoffman (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
Als het bier is in de man dan is de wijsheid in de kan (=van dronkaards verwacht men geen verstandige woorden) (www.woorden.org/spreekwoord.php?woord=bier)
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
― Benjamin Franklin (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.”
― David Daye (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer, http://partyflock.nl/topic/646213:Bier-quotes)
Een vaatje zuur bier (=een oude vrijster) (www.woorden.org/spreekwoord.php?woord=bier)
“She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.”
― Frank Zappa (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer, http://partyflock.nl/topic/646213:Bier-quotes, www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
“Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.”
― Martin Luther (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
Jong bier moet gisten (=kinderen hebben recht op plezier)
(www.woorden.org/spreekwoord.php?woord=bier)
“The problem with Marxism is the proletariat isn’t going to rise up against capitalism and consumerism. The only time they’ll rise up is during a commercial break to either go to the bathroom or grab more beer. ”
― Jarod Kintz, Untitled (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
Tegen de bierkaai vechten (=tegen een overmacht vechten, =een gevecht aangaan dat je in principe al bij voorbaat verloren hebt.) (www.woorden.org/spreekwoord.php?woord=bier)
“Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
Oudenbosch: das gin klein bier (=dat is niet mis)
Tilburgs: un rôoj kesjoeke van un beugelflèske Grolsch pils (=een rood gummiringetje van een beugelflesje Grolsch bier) (www.woorden.org/spreekwoord.php?woord=bier)
“American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer?page=3)
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.
Kurt Cobain (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_2.html)
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
Samuel L. Jackson (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_3.html)
The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.
Jay Leno (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_2.html)
Een goed cafe om de hoek is beter dan een verre brouwerij.
(http://partyflock.nl/topic/646213:Bier-quotes)
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
Dave Barry (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others.
Billy Carter (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_2.html)
Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.
Billy Carter (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_3.html)
Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
Billy Carter (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_3.html)
“Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Fortune's Fool (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
Bill Owen (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
"I do not sell beer, I sell fun."
~Freddy Heineken (www.quotenet.nl/Nieuws/Quotes-van-de-dag-Freddy-Heineken-verkocht-geen-bier-celebs-shoppen-in-selfies-en-Saab-naar-India-140256)
“A man who lies about beer makes enemies”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“Beer is food. Liquid food, like soup. ”
― Jarod Kintz, Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“To have a man whose name is on the label showing such interest, commitment, and determination for the best is a wonderful thing. This is someone who will throw money at quality, who believes in being the best. Never knock it. Would you prefer to have a bean counter in corporate headquarters, someone who never comes near the brewery, making decisions solely on the basis of the bottom line and profit margins?”
― Charles W. Bamforth, Beer Is Proof God Loves Us: The Craft, Culture, and Ethos of Brewing, Portable Documents (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. - John Molson, 1786
"We are all members of a larger community which depends on everyone playing a part," John Molson speaking to employees in 1825
"An honest brew makes its own friends," John Molson, and displayed on Molson Canadian packaging today
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molson_Brewery#Quotations)
“In an age when mass pleasures like television are becoming more feeble and homogeneous, the very act of discrimination becomes a form of protest. At a time when mass marketing of food produces a product so disgusting that it has to be wrapped in distracting gimmicks to be sold, the mere fact of paying attention to what you eat and drink and telling the truth about taste is a revolutionary act.”
― Lynn Hoffman (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
Als het bier is in de man dan is de wijsheid in de kan (=van dronkaards verwacht men geen verstandige woorden) (www.woorden.org/spreekwoord.php?woord=bier)
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
[misquote of a letter about wine, see quotes/831031]”
― Benjamin Franklin (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.”
― David Daye (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer, http://partyflock.nl/topic/646213:Bier-quotes)
“If I share your bottle of beer, I’ll take the left side.”
― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not FOR SALE
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
--Oscar Wilde (http://partyflock.nl/topic/646213:Bier-quotes)
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
--Winston Churchill (http://partyflock.nl/topic/646213:Bier-quotes)
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
--Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
--His reply (http://partyflock.nl/topic/646213:Bier-quotes)
“She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk.”
― Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.”
― Frank Zappa (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer, http://partyflock.nl/topic/646213:Bier-quotes, www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
“Whenever the devil harasses you, seek the company of men or drink more, or joke and talk nonsense, or do some other merry thing. Sometimes we must drink more, sport, recreate ourselves, and even sin a little to spite the devil, so that we leave him no place for troubling our consciences with trifles. We are conquered if we try too conscientiously not to sin at all. So when the devil says to you: do not drink, answer him: I will drink, and right freely, just because you tell me not to.”
― Martin Luther (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
Jong bier moet gisten (=kinderen hebben recht op plezier)
(www.woorden.org/spreekwoord.php?woord=bier)
“The problem with Marxism is the proletariat isn’t going to rise up against capitalism and consumerism. The only time they’ll rise up is during a commercial break to either go to the bathroom or grab more beer. ”
― Jarod Kintz, Untitled (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“So, if people didn’t settle down to take up farming, why then did they embark on this entirely new way of living? We have no idea – or actually, we have lots of ideas, but we don’t know if any of them are right. According to Felipe Fernández-Armesto, at least thirty-eight theories have been put forward to explain why people took to living in communities: that they were driven to it by climatic change, or by a wish to stay near their dead, or by a powerful desire to brew and drink beer, which could only be indulged by staying in one place.”
― Bill Bryson, At Home: A Short History of Private Life
“Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.”
― Ray Bradbury, The October Country (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
--For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingway (http://partyflock.nl/topic/646213:Bier-quotes)
Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
Jack Nicholson (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
“The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...”
― James Joyce, Ulysses (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“My favorite beer is water. I mean Bud Light.”
― Jarod Kintz, Sleepwalking is restercise (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“It couldn't be the beer. Donnie McRory was certain of that. If you sent American beer out to be analyzed, the lab would probably phone up and say, 'Your horse has diabetes.”
― Sharyn McCrumb, Bimbos of the Death Sun (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
People who drink light beer don't like the taste of beer;
they just like to pee alot.
--Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI (http://partyflock.nl/topic/646213:Bier-quotes)
De glazen horen klinken, maar niet weten waar de tap is.
Een pilsje in de kraag vatten.
“Religion is a non-alcoholic man's alcohol. Alcohol is a non-religious man's religion.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, Divided & Conquered (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
“There is this advantage about German beer: it does not make a man drunk as the word drunk is understood in England. There is nothing objectionable about him; he is simply tired. He does not want to talk; he wants to be let alone, to go to sleep; it does not matter where— anywhere.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men on the Bummel (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”
― Martin Luther (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
Beer. Now there's a temporary solution.
Dan Castellaneta (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
Beer is not a good cocktail-party drink, especially in a home where you don't know where the bathroom is.
Billy Carter (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_2.html)
“Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it's all--hahhhh.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
Oudenbosch: das gin klein bier (=dat is niet mis)
Tilburgs: un rôoj kesjoeke van un beugelflèske Grolsch pils (=een rood gummiringetje van een beugelflesje Grolsch bier) (www.woorden.org/spreekwoord.php?woord=bier)
“American culture enforces such rigid gender roles for male friendships that they are gay unless they materially resemble a beer commercial.”
― Thomm Quackenbush, Find What You Love and Let It Kill You (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer?page=3)
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.
Kurt Cobain (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_2.html)
Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.
Arnold Schwarzenegger (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
I never had one beer. If I bought a six-pack of beer, I kept drinking till all six beers were gone. You have to have that kind of understanding about yourself. I haven't had a drink now in 12 years.
Samuel L. Jackson (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_3.html)
The University of Nebraska says that elderly people that drink beer or wine at least four times a week have the highest bone density. They need it - they're the ones falling down the most.
Jay Leno (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_2.html)
Een goed cafe om de hoek is beter dan een verre brouwerij.
(http://partyflock.nl/topic/646213:Bier-quotes)
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
Dave Barry (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
There is no such thing as a bad beer. It's that some taste better than others.
Billy Carter (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_2.html)
Yes, sir. I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer.
Billy Carter (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_3.html)
Paintings are like a beer, only beer tastes good and it's hard to stop drinking beer.
Billy Carter (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_3.html)
“Thirstily he set it to his lips, and as its cool refreshment began to soothe his throat, he thanked Heaven that in a world of much evil there was still so good a thing as ale.”
― Rafael Sabatini, Fortune's Fool (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
Bill Owen (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer.html)
~Freddy Heineken (www.quotenet.nl/Nieuws/Quotes-van-de-dag-Freddy-Heineken-verkocht-geen-bier-celebs-shoppen-in-selfies-en-Saab-naar-India-140256)
“A man who lies about beer makes enemies”
― Stephen King, Pet Sematary (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“Beer is food. Liquid food, like soup. ”
― Jarod Kintz, Whenever You're Gone, I'm Here For You (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
― Charles W. Bamforth, Beer Is Proof God Loves Us: The Craft, Culture, and Ethos of Brewing, Portable Documents (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink, I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, 'It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.”
― Babe Ruth (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“Brewing is mentioned rarely in accounts of the Industrial Revolution. Temperance pressures meant it was impolitic for brewers to boast of their achievements and innovations, and few accurate records exist of exactly how it performed in the 19th Century compared to those glamorous, sexy industries like coal mining and steel making.”
― Peter Brown, The Love You Make: An Insider's Story of the Beatles
You can do anything with beer that you can do with wine. Beer is great for basting or marinating meat and fish.
Grant Wood (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_3.html)
“Nature's what it's all about, but our people have been brainwashed into thinking that life is a cell phone against your head and the TV on a beer commercial with hot chicks.”
― Tim Dorsey, Nuclear Jellyfish (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“[N]ow that growing your own (food, dope, hair, younameit) is hip," wrote the author of an essay widely reprinted in alternative newspapers, "it's time to resurrect the Dope of the Depression - Homebrew." Homemade beer inspired "good vibrations" and a "pleasant high." Unlike the rest of "plastic, mass-produced shit" of modern America, homebrew represented "an exercise of craft" and empowered the "politically oriented" to retaliate against "Augustus [sic] Busch and the other fascists pigs who [were] ripping off the Common Man.""If you're looking for a cheap drunk," added the beer adviser, "go back to Gussie Busch. But if you dig the good vibes from using something you make yourself, plus an improvement in quality over the commercial shit," brew on, brothers and sisters, brew on.”
― Maureen Ogle, Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
“Among the early commercial adopters of wild beer were the Cottonwood Brewery of Boone, North Carolina, and Joe’s Brewery of Champaign, Illinois. Brewer John Isenhour gained a “cult status” for his production of beers with a lambic profile in the mid-1990s using wild yeast and bacteria that he kept active at various stages of the lambic fermentation cycle. John quite successfully marketed the “Lambic” to his rather conservative clientele in this central Illinois college town as “Belgian lemonade.”
― Jeff Sparrow (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
“The weirdest thing about Tibet is that the most popular beer is Pabst Blue Ribbon. Everywhere, even on the slopes of Everest, cans of Pabst lay alongside the road labeled, 'Established in Milwaukee in 1849'.”
― Scott Stoll, Falling Uphill (www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/beer)
Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.
Steven Hall (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_4.html)
My inbox and doormat are full with emails and letters from people who want me to endorse their Higgs board game or to inaugurate the walkway of their new office atrium. There's even a microbrewery in Barcelona which wants to know what my favourite beer is so they can brew a similar one in my honour. It is quite mad.
Peter Higgs (www.brainyquote.com/quotes/keywords/beer_4.html)