“An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks just as much as you do.” — Dylan Thomas
(http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
“Work is the curse of the drinking classes.” — Oscar Wilde (http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
Even Edgar Allan Poe, our favorite gloomy-faced bad boy, wrote a short ode to beer. “What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.” We’re going to assume this was written before he ended up drunk in the gutter (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/).
“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.” — Dave Barry
(http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
Thomas Pynchon
Who? Author, Gravity’s Rainbow
Thoughts on the matter: “Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it’s all–hahhhh.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
Charles Bukowski
Who? Author, drinker
Thoughts on the matter: “stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/).
Stephen King
Who? Author, pop-culture junky
Thoughts on the matter: “A man who lies about beer makes enemies.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/).
Who? American author, poet
Thoughts on the matter: “Instead of water we got here a draught of beer…a lumberer’s drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once—which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
William Shakespeare
Who? Playwright, philanderer, all-around character
Thoughts on the matter: “For a quart of Ale is a dish for a king.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
“Blessed is the mother who gives birth to a brewer.” — Czech saying
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“There are two reasons for drinking: one is when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it.” — Thomas Love Peacock, Melincourt, 1817
(http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
Who? Sad-faced poet
Thoughts on the matter:
“Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chambers of my brain.
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies,
Come to life and fade away:
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.”
(http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
Who? British Prime Minister
Thoughts on the matter: “Most people hate the taste of beer—to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
“The church is near,
but the road is icy.
The bar is far away,
but I will walk carefully.”
— Russian proverb
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“Beer Speaks. People Mumble.” — Tony Magee, Lagunitas Brewing
(http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
“Drink! for you know not when you came, nor why; Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.” — Omar Khayyan, The Rubiay’at (http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
“One drink is just right,
two are too many,
three too few”
— Spanish saying
(http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
“Here’s to long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold beer — and another one!” — Irish Toast (http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
Do not cease to drink beer, to eat, to intoxicate thyself, to make love, and celebrate the good days.” — Ancient Egyptian saying (http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
Hugh Hood
Who? Canadian essayist, professor
Thoughts on the matter: “Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
Who? 16th U.S. president
Thoughts on the matter: “I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
“Beer is the center of everything. Everything revolves around beer. When you drink beer, everything revolves. Therefore beer is the center of everything.” — University of Waterloo Engineers (http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
Sid Vicious
Who? Rocker, potential murderer
Thoughts on the matter: “I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
Who? Wild-card, drug consumer
Thoughts on the matter: “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.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
Bill Carter
Who? Writer, documentary maker
Thoughts on the matter: “There is no such thing as a bad beer. It’s that some taste better than others.”
(http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
“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 (http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
“This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption… Beer!” — Friar Tuck, in the film Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves (http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
Ray Bradbury
Who? Sci-fi author, book lover
Thoughts on the matter: “Beer’s intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
“You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.” — Dean Martin (http://brookstonbeerbulletin.com/beer-quotations/)
Tina Fey
Who? Comedian, writer, genius
Thoughts on the matter: “In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I’m sorry, did I say ‘scientists’? I meant Irish people.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
Who? Feminist poet, writer
Thoughts on the matter: “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
Sylvia Plath
Who? American feminist poet
Thoughts on the matter: “The beer tastes good to my throat, cold and bitter, and the three boys and the beer and the queer freeness of the situation makes me feel like laughing forever. So I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can. I am looking very healthy and flushed and bright-eyed, having both a good tan and a rather excellent fever.” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)
Who? Author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Thoughts on the matter: “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?” (http://firstwefeast.com/drink/beer-quotes-from-famous-drinkers/)