“What the sober man has in his heart, the drunken man has on his lips.” — Danish proverb

“And there are few things in this life so revolting as sipped beer. But let it go down your throat as suds go down the drain, and you will quickly realize that this is a true friend, to be admitted to your most secret counsels. Long draughts with an open throat are the secret.” — Maurice Healy

“What do you say to a beer? I say, ‘You come here often?’” — Walter Breidenstein

“Schaum ist kein bier” (Froth is not beer.) — German proverb, 16th century

“Prohibition has made our president a dictator, executing an unpopular law by force of arms. It has made our congressmen cowards and hypocrites, passing more, and more oppressive laws, while themselves carrying whisky flasks in their hip pockets. Prohibition has divided our people into factions almost as bitterly hostile to each other as the factions that existed before the Civil War.” — William Randolph Hearst, 1932

“Beer! my father would bawl whenever some elder dared to chide his tippling. Beer is my food! To maintain his strength he seldom drank less than four quarts a day.” — Robert Roberts, The Classic Slum

“I have fed purely upon ale; I have ate my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.” — George Farquhar, The Beaux’ Strategem

“Some miners [in the town where he started his journalism career] 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.” — Michael Jackson

“No microbrewer in his right mind should make wheat beer. Five years from now it will be dead (as a commercial product).” — Joe Owades, April 1987

“They told me this story while we were waiting for an up-train. I supplied the beer. The tale was cheap at a gallon and a half.” — Rudyard Kipling, The Three Musketeers