Make sure that the beer – four pints a week – goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop.”
-Winston Churchill to his Secretary of War, 1944

“Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.”
– Henry Lawson – Australian Poet and Writer

“O Beer! O Hodgson, Guinness, Allsopp, Bass! Names that should be on every infant’s tongue.”
– C.V. Calverley – English Poet and Paradist

“Religions change; beer and wine remain.”
– Hervey Allen – Historian, Poet, Author

“Payday came and with it beer”
– Rudyard Kipling

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

“Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chambers of my brain.
Quantist thoughts – queerest fancies,
Come to life and fade away:
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.”
— Edgar Allan Poe

“Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today.”
– Edgar Allan Poe

“But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We’d sing and we’d pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.”
–William Blake

“I would give all my fame for a pot of ale and safety.”
-Shakespeare, ‘King Henry V.’