Beer : the great equaliser . The all-powerful inspiration behind so many neat works of artistic production , literature , film , and one - night stands . It ’s no marvel that so many big voices have pontificate about the serious drink throughout the ages .
From Homer Simpson to Plato , here ’s a abbreviated round - up of the honorable thing ever say about the world ’s dear potable .
" Ah , beer . The cause of and the solution to all of lifespan ’s job . " –Homer Simpson , cartoon character & role modeling
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" There is an ancient Gaelic axiom that articulate ' Good multitude drink sound beer . ' Which is true , then as now . Just look around you in any public ginmill and you will quickly see : big people drink in bad beer . Think about it . " –Hunter S. Thompson , author & rocking chair of Hawaiian shirts
" Beer , it ’s the best damn drink in the world . " –Jack Nicholson , actor & professional Lakers sports fan
" Never underestimate how much help , how much satisfaction , how much comfort , how much someone and transcendency there might be in a well - made greaser and a cold nursing bottle of beer . " –Tom Robbins , novelist & cool dad ( not a even papa )
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" Next to euphony beer was proficient . " –Carson McCullers , writer & total weirdo
" Milk River is for babies . When you grow up , you have to toast beer . " –Arnold Schwarzenegger , actor & Governator
" I am a solid believer in the people . If launch the truth , they can be reckon upon to meet any national crisis . The not bad pointedness is to bring them the real facts , and beer . " –Abe Lincoln , US president & quote master copy
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" He was a wise man who invented beer . " –Plato , philosopher & drained guy
" Beer , if drunk in moderation , softens the temper , cheers the sprightliness , and promotes health . " –Thomas Jefferson , US chair & Francophile
" I ’ve only been in passion with a beer bottle and a mirror . " –Sid Vicious , punk rock ikon & terribly skinny human
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" stay with the beer . beer is uninterrupted pedigree . a uninterrupted fan . " –Charles Bukowski , poet , novelist & enemy of established punctuation mark
" We old common people have to find our cushions and pillow in our tankards . Strong beer is the milk of the quondam . " –Martin Luther , Protestant reformer & another stagnant guy
" Beer ’s intellectual . What a shame so many idiots drink it . “–Ray Bradbury , novelist & creepy visionary
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" Keep your libraries , your penal establishment , your insane asylums … give me beer . You intend man needs regulation , he necessitate beer . The world does not need moral , it need beer … The souls of men have been fed with indigestibles , but the somebody could make employment of beer . “–Henry Miller , novelist & white man
" I ’m gaining weightiness the right way : I ’m drinking beer . " –Johnny Damon , former pro baseball player & double-crosser
" A meal of clams , tall mallow , and beer appoint the perfect intellectual nourishment . " –Queen Elizabeth I , last of the Tudor dynasty , I think
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" I am sure of this , that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day , there would be not half the disorderliness in the cosmos there are now . It would be a famous practiced thing for us all . " –Jane Austen , writer & booster of hood
" Sometimes when I think over on all the beer I toast , I feel ashamed . Then I see into the glass and believe about the worker in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams . If I did n’t pledge this beer , they might be out of employment and their dreams would be shatter . I think , ' It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams occur dependable than be selfish and vex about my liver . ' " –Babe Ruth , baseball legend & beer - guzzling American hero
" There is nothing in the human race like the first taste of beer . " –John Steinbeck , writer & excellent mustache - grower
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" Well , I never met a beer I did n’t drink . And down it goes . " –Norm Peterson , Cheersbarfly & a humans bring up " Hillary "
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