Beer/Wine Quotes

Do you suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused? Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?
-Martin Luther
 

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

People who drink light 'beer' don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee alot.
-Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI

Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
-Winston Churchill

If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
-David Daye

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
-Benjamin Franklin

There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.
-Benjamin Franklin

The easiest way to spot a wanker in a pub is to look around and find who's drinking a Corona with a slice of lemon in the neck.
-Warwick Franks

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

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
-Abraham Lincoln

Whoever serves beer or wine watered down, he himself deserves in them to drown.
-Midieval plea for pure libations

Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.
-David Moulton

He was a wise man who invented beer.
-Plato

[I recommend]… bread, meat, vegetables and beer.
-Sophocles' philosophy of a moderate diet

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

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

The mouth of a perfectly happy man is filled with beer.
-Ancient Egyptian proverb

The selling of bad beer is a crime against Christian love.
-13th century law from the city of Augsburg

God made yeast, as well as dough, and he loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson