“Beer was not made to be moralized about, but to be drunk.” — Theodore Maynard

“… in life, there’s always room for beer.” — Tom Ciccateri

“In eating, a third of the stomach should be filled with food, a third with drink, and the rest left empty.” — The Talmud

“Called ale among men; but by the gods called beer.” — The Alvismát09

“Hops, turkies, carp, and beer
Came into England all in one year.”
— Old English Proverb

“I rose politely in the club
And said, I feel a little bored.
Will someone take me to a pub?”
— G.K. Chesterton, A Ballade of An Anti-Puritan, 1915

“Brehm asserts that the natives of Northeastern Africa catch the wild baboons by exposing vessels with strong beer, by which they are made drunk….. On the following morning … they held their aching heads with both hands.” — Charles Darwin, Origin of Species, 1859

“Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness, the awful realization of our mortality.” — Alan Eames

“A man hath no better thing under the sun than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry.” — The Bible, Ecclesiastes 3:13

“Any foreign trip is better if you can visit a few breweries.” — Fred Eckhardt