“It isn’t because there are no refrigerators in England. If you order a Heineken in England (you must be a lunatic) it will be chilled.” (explaining the US perception that UK beer is warm) — Michael Jackson

“Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale.” — William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona

“Friends don’t let friends drink Light Beer.”

“Ale — not beer — in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentlemen of letters, worthy of the name, to drink.” — Guy de Maupassant, Twelve Men

“Everybody’s old enough for a beer, ain’t that right, Mule?” — Jack Nicholson, in “The Last Detail”

“The perverted ingenuity of man has given to water the power of intoxicating where wine is not procured. Western nations intoxicate themselves by moistened grain.” — Pliny the Elder

“They proceed with the speed of rockets to the northeast corner of the universe, which George perceived to be shaped exactly like a pint of beer, in which the nebulae were the ascending bubbles.” — John Collier; The Devil, George, and Rosie

“A clay tablet dating around 4000 BC excavated in what is today Syria is inscribed with what is known as the earliest known beer advertisement. The tablet is adorned with a large-breasted woman holding two goblets and is inscribed with the caption ‘Drink Ebla Beer — the beer with the heart of a lion!’” — Zymurgy, 1998

“No, Sir: There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.” — Samuel Johnson

“I feel wonderful, drinking beer in a blissful mood, with joy in my heart and a happy liver.” — Sumerian inscription, 3000 BCE