“Whiskey and Beer are a man’s worst enemies … but the man that runs away from his enemies is a coward!” — Zeca Pagodinho

“If smirking wine be wanted here
There’s that which drowns all cares, stout beer.”
— Robert Herrick

“Home is where you hang your hangover.” — James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss

“Better thin beer than an empty jug” — Danish proverb

“When I finally caught up with Abraham Trahearne, he was drinking beer with an alcoholic bulldog named Fireball Roberts in a ramshackle joint just outside of Sonoma, California, drinking the heart right out of a fine spring afternoon.” — James Crumley, The Last Good Kiss

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.” — Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“A tavern is a place where madness is sold by the bottle.”

“One mouth doesn’t taste the beer.” — Bantu proverb

“The man who called it ‘near beer’ was a bad judge of distance.” — Philander Johnson/Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer

“I drank only water; the other workmen, near 50 in number, were great guzzlers of beer. We had an alehouse boy who attended always in the house to supply the workmen. My companion at the press, drank every day a pint before breakfast, a pint at breakfast with his bread and cheese; a pint in the afternoon about six o’clock, and another when he’d done his day’s work…but it was necessary, he suppos’d, to drink strong beer that he might be strong to labor. Those who continu’d sotting with beer all day, were often, by not paying out of cr at the alehouse, and us’d to make interest with me to get beer, their light, as they phras’d it, being out.” — Benjamin Franklin