Beer quotes/sayings thread!

[jpsherman]

I just found an awesome poem by Edgar Allen Poe about beer, and I know there are tons of other good sayings out there. We need a thread to consolidate the wisom of the ages.

It doesn't have to be from a famous person, if your crazy uncle has a good saying about drinkin, it qualifies here.

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.

– Edgar Allan Poe

“Only a pint at breakfast-time, and a pint and a half at eleven o’clock, and a quart or so at dinner. And then no more till the afternoon; and half a gallon at supper-time. No one can object to that.” — Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone

“It was of the most beautiful colour that the eye of an artist in beer could desire; full in body, yet brisk as a volcano; piquant, yet without a twang; luminous as an autumn sunset; free from streakiness of taste; but, finally, rather heady. The masses worshipped it, the minor gentry loved it more than wine, and by the most illustrious county families it was not despised. Anybody brought up for being drunk and disorderly in the streets of its natal borough, had only to prove that he was a stranger to the place and its liquor to be honourably dismissed by the magistrates, as one overtaken in a fault that no man could guard against who entered the town unawares.” — Thomas Hardy, The Trumpet Major


“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. “ — Hunter S. Thompson

“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.” — Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

[FedoraDave]

Might as well add The Hat's First Rule of Homebrewing:

"If you like the beer you made, you did it right."

[joechianti]

Here's one of my favorites:

"Breakfast is the most important drink of the day, so don't skip it"

[Beer-lord]

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

[joechianti]

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.

W. C. Fields

[BlackDuck]

"If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose."

-Deep Thought, Jack Handy

[Chuck N]

One beer, two beer, three beer, floor!

[BigPapaG]

"I married a woman who drove me to drink... And she picked me up when the bar closed!"

- Anonymous

[RickBeer]

Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake.

W. C. Fields

Subject of thread - BEER quotes /sayings.