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Beer Quotes

Do you have a favorite Beer Quote, a piece of Beer Trivia, a tip on Homebrewing, or just about anything else you might like to share with the Jamesport Family?  Please email YourDailyServing, we will post it and make sure we give you a big "Thanks".

 

When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.

 -- Dave Barry

 

The best place to drink beer is at home. Or on a river bank, if the fish don't bother you. -- American Folk Saying

  

Friends don't let friends drink Light Beer.  Anonymous

A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote.
 A journalist invents his lies, and rams them down your throat.
 So stay at home and drink your beer and let the neighbors vote.
 --William Butler Yeats

 

in the Bowling Alley of Tomorrow, there will even be machines that wear rental shoes and throw the ball for you. Your sole function will be to drink beer.  Dave Barry

 

Nary a day goes by that I miss to wonder why
the moon shows his face as the day draws nigh.
In the firelight I ponder my canine's thought
as he gazes upon me from his hand-me-down cot.
I think of God and all his creations,
one being the women with her unbridled temptations.
I have searched for love with no direction,
skeletons in the closet... a fine collection.
These quandaries of mine, I'm sure to figure out.
For I know the answer lies at the bottom of this stout.

 

Love is like drinking beer.   Once you get too much of it, you begin to act Stupid.
Happy Valentines Day

 

“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

 

"Beer: So much more than just a breakfast drink."
-Whitstran Brewery sign

 

Why, we'll smoke and drink our beer.
For I like a drop of good beer, I does.
I'ze fond of good beer, I is.
Let gentlemen fine sit down to their wine.
But we'll all of us here stick to our beer.

Source: Old Somersetshire English song

  

 

I've always believed that paradise will have my favorite beer on tap.
Rudyard Wheatley

 

"They who drink beer will think beer."
-Washington Irving

 

“The church is near,but the road is icy.
The bar is far away,but I will walk carefully.”

— Russian proverb

 

You don't have to be a beer drinker to play darts, but it helps.  ~Author Unknown

 

My dog by my side, a pint of ale in hand
Heaven can wait………..Islandman

 

He that buys land buys many stones.
He that buys flesh buys many bones.
He that buys eggs buys many shells,
But he that buys good beer buys nothing else.

 

 

Champagne costs too much,
Whiskey's too rough,
Vodka puts big mouths in gear.
This little refrain
Should help to explain
Why it's better to order a beer!

Courtesy Realbeer.com

 

You foam within our glasses, you lusty golden brew,
Whoever imbibes takes fire from you.
The young and the old sing your praises,
Here's to beer,
Here's to cheer,
Here's to beer!

From the opera, "The Bartered Bride"

 

 

 

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

 

 

"Sometimes when I reflect back 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. Then I say to myself, 'It is better that I drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.'"
-Deep Thought, Jack Handy

 

Here's to a 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!

~Author Unknown


"Stay busy, get plenty of exercise, and don't drink too much.  Then again, don't drink too little".  ~Herman "Jackrabbit" Smith-Johannsen 

 

"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."

-Benjamin Franklin 

 

 

 

"Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health."    Thomas Jefferson
Contributed by Bill Machol

 

My dog by my side, a pint of ale in hand

Heaven can wait………..Islandman

 

Mother's in the kitchen washing out the jugs,
Sister's in the pantry bottling the suds,
Father's in the cellar mixin' up the hops,
Johnny's on the front porch watchin' for the cops.

Prohibition song

 

You guys came by to have some fun.
You'll come and stay all night, I fear.
But I know how to make you run.
I'll serve you all generic beer.

Courtesy Realbeer.com

Remember "I" before "E", except in Budweiser.
-Anonymous
 

 

"Oh, lager beer! It makes good cheer, And proves the poor man's worth; It cools the body through and through, and regulates the health."

Anonymous

 

"The roots and herbs beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengthen and quicken the sight of the eyes."

Nicholas Culpeper 

 

"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

 

"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."

-Abraham Lincoln

 

"...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

 

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

-Old Irish Toast

 

“A Bird in hand is worth two in the bush….A Beer in hand, Pricelesss”

Islandman

 

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."

-Frank Zappa

 

"One of the hallmarks of the baby boomer generation is that it doesn't live like the previous generation. It hasn't yet given up jeans and T-shirts or beer."

-Ron Klugman, SVP, Coors Brewing

 

"This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption... Beer!"

-Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Friar Tuck

 

"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 to his Secretary of War, 1944

 

A fine beer may be judged with only one sip, but it's better to be thoroughly sure.

 Czech Proverb quotes

 

"Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire."

-David Rains Wallace

 

"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

 

"Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world."

-Kaiser Welhelm

 

"Oh, lager beer! It makes good cheer, And proves the poor man's worth; It cools the body through and through, and regulates the health."

Anonymous

 

"I never met a pub  I didn't like."

-Pete Slosberg, Founder of Pete's Brewing Company

 

"[I recommend]… bread, meat, vegetables and beer."

-Sophocles' philosophy of a moderate diet

 

"I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety."

Shakespeare, Henry V

 

"Beer: So much more than just a breakfast drink."

-Whitstran Brewery sign

 

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

 

"We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old."

-Martin Luther

 

"Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into."

-Don Marquis

 

"24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? "

Stephen Wright