"I work until beer o'clock." Steven King

"Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer." Henry Lawson

 "When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading." Henny Youngman

"God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as he loves vegetation."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The culture of the hop ... so analogous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets."

Henry David Thoreau

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day." 

Frank Sinatra

"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt." Dean Martin

"A man without beer is like a lawnmower without grass." Anonymous

"Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop."

Winston Churchill, in a 1944 note to his Secretary of War.

"Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."

Winston Churchill

"Fermentation and civilization are inseparable." John Ciardi

"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 real facts, and beer." 

Abraham Lincoln

"The moralizing tendency and salubrious nature of fermented liquors - beer, ale, porter, and cider - recommend them to a serious consideration and particularly in our country."

Alexander Hamilton, 1827

"Wine gentrifies, beer unifes." W. Scott Griffith

"Give a man a beer, he'll waste an hour; teach a man to brew, he'll waste a lifetime." Masthead motto of American Brewer

"Hail to beer, America's beverage!" Closing line of the "American Beer Pledge" which is frequently receited during American Beer month each July. 

"Come, my lad, and drink some beer." Samuel Johnson

"... to conduct [drinking] in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living."

James Boswell, 1775

"A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat and to drink and to be merry." 

Ecclesiates 8:15.

"No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer."

John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough

"Bread is the staff of life, but beer is life itself." Anonymous

"... there is only one game at the heart of America and that is baseball, and only one beverage to be found sloshing at the depths of our national soul and that is beer." 

Peter Richmond

"Of beer an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others..."

A.A. Milne

"Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity, but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?"

George du Maurier, Trilby.

"Beer is our friend." Dana Tripplet

"May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And my you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows your dead."

Old Irish toast.

"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 movie Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves

"From man's sweat and God's love, beer came into the world." Arnoldus

"Whoever servers beer or wine watered down, he himself deserves in them to drown." 

Medieval plea for pure libations.

"... one man had his britches set on fire; a provident wit put it out with bottled ale." 

Sir Henry Wotton, recalling a fire that set the Globe Theater ablaze in 1600.

"The sum of the matter is, the people drink because they wish to drink." 

Rudolph Brand, 20th-century Chicago brewer

"An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger, or a beer."Confucius

"Beer will always have a definite role in the diet of an individual and can be considered a cog in the wheel of nutritional foods." 

Bruce Carlton, chemist.

"I'm going to buy a boat...do a little traveling,and I'm going to be drinking beer!" 

Brooklyn bus driver John Welsh, $30 million New York Lottery winner.

"Bring back beer and you bring back prosperity!" 

New York City Mayor Jimmy Walker, as he led a day-long beer parade on May 14, 1932

"Beer needs baseball, and baseball needs beer - it has always been thus." Peter Richmond

"Wine is a gift of God, beer is a human tradition." 

Martin Luther, son-in-law of a brewer.

"We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old." Martin Luther, who married brewster Katharina of Bora in 1525.

"No matter how rich you are, you can still only drink 17 to 18 liters of beer a day." 

Anonymous German nobleman.

"Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire." David Rains Wallace

"Who does not love beer, wine, women and song remains a fool his whole life long." 

Carl Worner, German-born bottlemaker known for his distinctive saloon scenes that decorated early 20th-century American beer bottles. 

 "My no-fail prescription for personal and political health is to take a vitamin E capsule once a day, an evening constitutional, [and] at least a couple of twelve-ounce elbow bends." 

Jim Hightower, radio talk show host and former Texas Agriculture Commissioner.

"Save Water, Drink Beer." T-shirt motto seen at the Toronto Beer Festival

19th-century English pub sign

"The Horse and Mule live thirty years,

Yet know nothing of wines and beers. . .

But sinful, Ginful, beer soaked man,

Survives three score years and ten."

Anonymous

"Treat our beer like the family dog - keep it comfortable and out of extreme heat or cold, except when taking it out to play." 

Advice on Western Reserve Brewing Company's six-pack.

"Okay, the last one to kill a bad guy buys the beer." 

Matt LeBlanc in the 1998 film Lost in Space

"The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer'." 

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