50 Quotes About Beer By Famous People

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“The other day I was so desperate for a beer, I snuck into the football stadium and ate the dirt under the bleachers.” – Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)

“We could be happy if the air was as pure as beer.” – Richard Von Weizsaecker (former president of the German Federal Republic)

“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 (American journalist and author)

“I’m off for a quiet pint, followed by fifteen noisy ones.” – Gareth Chilcott (British rugby player)

“In my opinion, most of the great men of the past were only there for the beer.” – Alan John Percivale Taylor (British Historian)

“Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.” – Thomas Jefferson (3rd President of the United States)

“I work until beer o’clock.” – Steven King (American author)

“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.” – Kaiser Wilhelm II (German Emperor and King of Prussia)

“Payday came and with it beer.” – Rudyard Kipling (English poet and author)

“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 (American author and humorist)

“My people must drink beer.” – Frederick the Great (King of Prussia)

“Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass, down with the beer!” – Louis Untermeyer (author and poet)

“God is great, beer is good, and people are crazy.” – Billy Currington (country music artist)

“No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.” – John Churchill (First Duke of Marlborough)

“We old folks have to find out cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.” – Martin Luther (German theologian)

“Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.” – David Moulton (radio show host and sports writer)

“I’m going to buy a boat… do a little traveling, and I’m going to be drinking beer!” – John Welsh (Brooklyn bus driver who won $30 million in the New York lottery)

“I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.” – Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)

“Pretty women make us buy beer. Ugly women make us drink beer.” – Al Bundy (Married with Children)

“Fermentation may have been a greater discover than fire.” – David Rains Wallace (author o geography-related books)

“Of beer, an enthusiast has said that it could never be bad, but that some brands might be better than others.” – A.A. Milne (English author and creator of Winnie the Pooh)

“I’m allergic to grass. Hey, it could be worse. I could be allergic to beer.” – Greg Norman (Australian professional golfer)

“We’re wanted men, we’ll strike again, but first let’s have a beer.” – Jimmy Buffett (American singer-songwriter)

“Let no man thirst for good beer.” – Samuel Adams (American statesman and Founding Father)

“All right, brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me – so let’s just do this and I’ll get back to killing you with beer.” – Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)

“I drink to make other people interesting.” – George Jean Nathan (American drama critic)

“I like beer. On occasion I will even drink beer to celebrate a major event such as the fall of Communism or the fact that the refrigerator is still working.” – Dave Barry (American author and humorist)

“Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.” – Kinky Friedman (American singer and humorist)

“We’re just going to go straight beer. No sense in diluting it.” – Robert Gibbs (Former White House Press Secretary)

“I never met a pub I didn’t like.” – Pete Slosberg (founder of Pete’s Brewing Company)

“Bring us a pitcher of beer every seven minutes until somebody passes out. And then bring one every ten minutes.” – Thornton Melon (Back to School)

“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 (American author and humorist)

“Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.” – Queen Victoria

“Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.” – Henry Lawson (Australian writer and poet)

“God, I’d give anything for a drink. I’d give my god-damned soul or just a glass of beer.” – Jack Torrance (The Shining)

“Twenty-four hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?” – Stephen Wright (American comedian)

“Who does not love beer, wine, women, and song remains a fool his whole life long.” – Johann Heinrich Voss (German poet and translator)

“Milk is for babies; when you grow up you have to drink beer.” – Arnold Schwarzenegger (Austrian/American bodybuilder, actor and politician)

“Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into.” – Don Marquis (American author and humorist)

“Beer. It’s the best damn drink in the world.” – Jack Nicholson (American actor)

“You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.” – Frank Zappa (American musician and composer)

“They who drink beer will think beer.” – Washington Irving (American author and historian)

“God has a brown voice, soft and full as beer.” – Anne Sexton (American poet)

“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 (16th President of the United States)

“It was as natural as eating and, to me, as necessary. I would not have though of eating a meal without drinking a beer.” – Ernest Hemingway (American author and journalist)

“We brewers don’t make beer, we just get all the ingredients together and the beer makes itself.” – Fritz Maytag (President of the Anchor Brewing Company)

“I only came here to do two things: kick some ass and drink some beer.” – Clint Bruno (Dazed and Confused)

“Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.” – Homer Simpson (The Simpsons)

“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 (Australian sports writer)

“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.'” – Jack Handey (American humorist)

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