Brewing Quotes

• Beer does not make itself properly by itself. It takes an element of mystery and of things that no one can understand.

  Fritz Maytag

  Humorous, Beer, Doe

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  The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Drinking, Book, Beer

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• There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.347, Bantam Classics

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• Give my people plenty of beer, good beer, and cheap beer, and you will have no revolution among them.

  Queen Victoria

  Beer, People, Giving

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• If you think about brewing, it is biotechnology. And I would say that I was a technologist at heart. So whether I... fermented beer or whether I fermented enzymes, the base technology was the same.

  Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

  Heart, Beer, Thinking

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• You can't be a real country unless you have a beer.

  Frank Zappa

  Country, Real, Drinking

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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• Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.

  Henry Lawson

  Party, Drinking, Beer

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• When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.

  Dave Barry

  Fun, Humorous, Home

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• You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.

  Adolphus Busch

  Money, Humorous, Drinking

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• He that drinks fast, pays slow.
  Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
  There can't be good living where there is not good drinking.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Drinking, Beer, Alcohol

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• I drink with impunity...or anyone else who invites me.

  W. C. Fields

  Humorous, Beer, Drink

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• God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Food, Godly, Beer

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.277, Harvard University Press

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• Revolution can never be forecast; it cannot be foretold; it comes of itself. Revolution is brewing and is bound to flare up.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Flare Up, Revolution, Forecasts

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• For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Drinking, Beer

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1

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• 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

  Funny, Football, Country

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.231, Simon and Schuster

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  An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Book, Drinking, Beer

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Whatever storm was brewing, I'd find it and fight it. If it was the price of being with Curran, then I would pay it. He was worth it.

  Ilona Andrews

  Fighting, Storm, Pay

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• Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Cheer, Drinking, Beer

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• I think this would be a good time for a beer.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Beer, Thinking, Would Be

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• Language is an art, like brewing or baking.... It certainly is not a true instinct, for every language has to be learnt.

  Charles Darwin

  Art, Baking, Language

  Charles Darwin (1875). “The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex”, p.86

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• Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Humorous, Drinking, Beer

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• I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

  Adrian Rogers

  Sorry, Drinking, Beer

  Adrian Rogers, Steve Rogers (2012). “What Every Christian Ought to Know”, p.25, B&H Publishing Group

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• Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Food, Drinking, Beer

  Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics

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• I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Beer, Meals

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “The Hemingway Collection”, p.531, Simon and Schuster

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• I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

  Sid Vicious

  Love, Beer, Mirrors

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