Beer Quotes - Page 16

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them. They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne. Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes, I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.

Why we are here: To tremble at the terrible beauty of the stars, to shed a tear at the perfection of Beethoven's symphonies, and to crack a cold one now and then.

Uh oh, it's beer o'clock, I think I'm sober. How about we think this over, over a can of King Cobra?

You can't drink all day if you don't start in the morning.

Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure.

And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

I don’t need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)

I suppose I'll be able to get a drink there... I told the stewardess liquor for three... Who are the other two?...Oh, there are no other two

Life's not all beer and skittles

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Some miners would have 20 pints after a hard day in the mine. Now that we sit behind computers all day, this is down to 18 or 19 pints.

Drinking really cold beer is like slapping yourself in the face with an ice pick.

Sometimes, I think the only art left for us is slowly peeling the label off a beer bottle while somebody tells you about a dream they had.

I ain't got no time for a Caribbean cruise, just give me a song and a beer.

Gimme a pigfoot and a bottle of beer.

The bartenders are the regular band of Jack, and the heavenly drummer who looks up to the sky with blue eyes, with a beard, is wailing beer-caps of bottles and jamming on the cash register and everything is going to the beat - It's the beat generation, its béat, it's the beat to keep, it's the beat of the heart, it's being beat and down in the world and like oldtime lowdown.

I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

Good peo­ple drink good beer. Just look around any pub­lic bar­room and you will see: Bad peo­ple drink bad beer. Think about it.

One would think America big enough to set aside wilderness preserves for the many of our citizens who seek to escape the incessant crowd, to search for solace in solitude amidst a sanctuary far removed from the banality of beer ads and cigarette commercials.

Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed by the facts.