“You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.” — Dean Martin

“This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption… Beer!” — Friar Tuck, in the film Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves

“[I recommend]… bread, meat, vegetables and beer.” — Sophocles (on his philosophy of a moderate diet)

“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.” — Kaiser Wilhelm

“Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hallowed be thy drink,
Thy will be drunk,
(I will be drunk),
At home as I am in the tavern.
Give us this day our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill against us,
and lead us not to incarceration,
But deliver us from hangovers,
For thine is the beer,
The bitter and the lager,
Forever and ever,
”
— The Beer Prayer

“Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.” — John Ciardi

“Wherever beer is brewed, all is well-wherever beer is drunk, life is good.” — Czech proverb

“Say for what were hopyards meant.
Or why was Burton built on Trent?
Oh many a peer of English Brews
Livelier liquor than the muse,
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.
Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think.”
— A.E. Housman

“Blessed is the mother who gives birth to a brewer.” — Czech saying

“Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza.” — Dave Barry