“Prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into” — Don Marquis, Certain Maxims of Archy

• “Boughs have their fruit and blossom
  At all times of the year;
  Rivers are running over
  With red beer and brown beer.”
  — William Butler Yeats

“Life isn’t all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman’s education.” — Thomas Hughes, Tom Browne’s Schooldays, 1857

“When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. ” — Henny Youngman

“There’s damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer.” — Jimmy Buffett

“Ideally, brewers interpret history, and through science they create art.” — Don Spencer, Silver City Brewery

“The tavern will compare favorably with the church.” — Henry David Thorea

“Who-ever makes a poor beer is tranferred to the dung hill.” — City of Danzig edict, 11th Century

“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

“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.” — William Butler Yeats

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