There are plenty enough well-known quotes about beer. Some of the best-known, unfortunately, are made up (http://zythophile.co.uk/tag/charles-dickens/):
Did Ben Franklin say "Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy?"
Answer:
The short answer is no. There is no evidence that Franklin ever said this. Well, no evidence aside from that quote being attributed to him on tee shirts hanging in the gift shops of 90% of brewery gift shops and that this misquote is trotted out every time a journalist is assigned a beer story which he researches only as deeply as Wikipedia....Franklin did write, "Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy." (http://beer.about.com/od/historyofbeer/f/
Did-Benjamin-Franklin-Really-Say-Beer-Is-Proof-That-God-Loves-Us-And-Wants-Us-To-Be-Happy.htm).
Blessing of your heart, you brew good ale.
-Shakespeare,
Two Gentlemen of Verona
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“See that ye keep a noble house for beef and beer, that thereof may be praise given to God and to your honour.”
Advice given to Leonard, titular sixth Lord Dacre, in 1570
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I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship to be deprived of their beer.
-Woodrow Wilson
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And what dost thou drink? I drink beer if I have it or water if I have not.
-from Archbishop Alfrics Vocabulary 995AD (www.raysplacekent.com/#!awards/c5la)
...hot beer is excellent for keeping the stomach in good order for concoction, and consequently good health; so it is most excellent for the quenching of thirst. For I have not known thirst since I have used hot beer let the weather never be so hot, and my work great. Cold beer is very pleasant when extreme thirst is in thy stomach; but that is more dangerous to thy health. Many by drinking a cup of cold beer in extreme thirst have taken a surfeit and killed themselves. Therefore we must not drink cold beer
-Henry Overton,
1641
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“If [beer] is … the people’s beverage – and nobody, I take it, will deny that it is just that – its history must of necessity go hand in hand, so to speak, with the history of that people, with the history of its entire civilisation.”
John P Arnold, Origin and History of Beer and Brewing, 1911
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Did Ben Franklin say "Beer is proof that god loves us and wants us to be happy?"
Answer:
The short answer is no. There is no evidence that Franklin ever said this. Well, no evidence aside from that quote being attributed to him on tee shirts hanging in the gift shops of 90% of brewery gift shops and that this misquote is trotted out every time a journalist is assigned a beer story which he researches only as deeply as Wikipedia....Franklin did write, "Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy." (http://beer.about.com/od/historyofbeer/f/
Did-Benjamin-Franklin-Really-Say-Beer-Is-Proof-That-God-Loves-Us-And-Wants-Us-To-Be-Happy.htm).
Blessing of your heart, you brew good ale.
-Shakespeare,
Two Gentlemen of Verona
(www.raysplacekent.com/#!awards/c5la)
“See that ye keep a noble house for beef and beer, that thereof may be praise given to God and to your honour.”
Advice given to Leonard, titular sixth Lord Dacre, in 1570
(http://zythophile.co.uk/tag/charles-dickens/, http://zythophile.co.uk/2013/02/21/twenty-beer-quotes-that-deserve-to-be-better-known/)
I have received delegations of working men who, apparently speaking with the utmost sincerity, have declared that they would regard it as a genuine hardship to be deprived of their beer.
-Woodrow Wilson
(www.raysplacekent.com/#!awards/c5la)
And what dost thou drink? I drink beer if I have it or water if I have not.
-from Archbishop Alfrics Vocabulary 995AD (www.raysplacekent.com/#!awards/c5la)
...hot beer is excellent for keeping the stomach in good order for concoction, and consequently good health; so it is most excellent for the quenching of thirst. For I have not known thirst since I have used hot beer let the weather never be so hot, and my work great. Cold beer is very pleasant when extreme thirst is in thy stomach; but that is more dangerous to thy health. Many by drinking a cup of cold beer in extreme thirst have taken a surfeit and killed themselves. Therefore we must not drink cold beer
-Henry Overton,
1641
(www.raysplacekent.com/#!awards/c5la)
“If [beer] is … the people’s beverage – and nobody, I take it, will deny that it is just that – its history must of necessity go hand in hand, so to speak, with the history of that people, with the history of its entire civilisation.”
John P Arnold, Origin and History of Beer and Brewing, 1911
(http://zythophile.co.uk/tag/charles-dickens/, http://zythophile.co.uk/2013/02/21/twenty-beer-quotes-that-deserve-to-be-better-known/)
