“A glass of bitter or pale ale, taken with the principal meal of the day, does more good and less harm than any medicine the physician can prescibe.” — Dr. S. Carpenter, England, 1750

“In wine there is wisdom. In beer is strength. In water is bacteria.” — German saying

“Beefsteaks and porter are good belly mortar.” — Scottish proverb, 1760

“Water is good for only two things: floating ships and making beer.” — Anonymous

“Let us sing our own treasures, Old England’s good cheer, to the profits and pleasures of stout British beer. Your wine tippling, dram sipping fellows retreat, but your beer drinking Britons can never be beat. The French with their vineyards and meager pale ale, they drink from the squeezing of half ripe fruit. But we, who have hop-yards to mellow our ale, are rosy and plump and have freedom to boot.” — English drinking song, 1757

“Poor John Scott lies buried here, although he was both hale and stout. Death stretched his on the bitter bier, in another world he hops about.” — On tomb of Liverpool brewer

“Here’s to beer, so amber and pure. Not as sweet as a woman’s lips, But a damn sight more sincere.” — Old Irish Toast

“Everyone has his own lifetime dream. Mine is that someday, in a tavern somewhere, I’ll hold up a pitcher of beer like this and I’ll say, Bartender? Could I have a glass? And he’ll look back at me and say, Friend, this is the glass!” — Joe Martin (Mister Boffo comic strip)

“Thought of giving it all away, to a registered charity. All I need is a pint a day.” — Paul McCartney

“Twas Christmas broach’d the mightiest ale; ’twas Christmas told the merriest tale; a Christmas gambol oft could cheer the poor man’s heart through half the year.” — Sir Walter Scott