“Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at all seasons, madam: that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals. ” — Pierre de Beaumarchais

“I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.” — Johnny Carson

“For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.” — Xenophon, Anabasis

“I never met a pub I didn’t like.” — Pete Slosberg

“Brewers enjoy working to make beer as much as drinking beer instead of working.” — Howard Rudolph

“One sip of this
Will bathe the drooping spirits in delight,
Beyond the bliss of dreams.”
— John Milton

“I’ve made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.” — H.L. Mencken

“Drinking is a way of ending the day.” — Ernest Hemingway

“People who don’t drink are afraid of revealing themselves.” — Humphrey Bogart

“Or merry swains, who quaff the nut-brown ale,
And sing enamour’d of the nut-brown maid.”
— James Beattie, The Minstrel