Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, "It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and worry about my liver.
~Babe Ruth
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I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
~Lyndon B. Johnson
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When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
~Paul Hornung
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24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.
~L. Mencken
Originally posted by rwingettVery good quotes,do you have some more?
Sometimes when I reflect on all the beer I drink I feel ashamed. Then I look into the glass and think about the workers in the brewery and all of their hopes and dreams. If I didn't drink this beer, they might be out of work and their dreams would be shattered. I think, "It is better to drink this beer and let their dreams come true than be selfish and wo ...[text shortened]... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.
~L. Mencken
Originally posted by RavelloQuotes related to wine, Rav:
Very good quotes,do you have some more?
Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.
Anon
Great wine is an art. It sharpens the wit, gladdens the heart, and stimulates all that is most generous in human nature.
H. Warner Allen
In wine, one beholds the heart of another.
Anon
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
Where there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.
Ovid
Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
Ambrose Bierce
In victory, you deserve Champagne, in defeat, you need it.
Napoleon Bonaparte.
Tis pity wine should be so deleterious,
For tea and coffee leave us much more serious.
Lord Byron
What contemptible scoundrel stole the cork from my lunch?
W.C. Fields
Compromises are for relationships, not wine.
Sir Robert Scott Caywood
I have enjoyed great health at a great age because everyday since I can remember I have consumed a bottle of wine except when I have not felt well. Then I have consumed two bottles.
Bishop of Seville
Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried, with fewer tensions and more tolerance.
Benjamin Franklin
From wine what sudden friendship springs!
John Gay
Wine is the most civilized thing in the world.
Ernest Hemingway
Wine can of their wits the wise beguile,
Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile.
Homer, The Odyssey
God only made water, but man made wine.
Victor Hugo
My only regret in life is that I did not drink more Champagne.
John Maynard Keyes
Wine lets no lover unrewarded go.
Alexander Pope
If your heart is warm with happiness, you'll need a glass ? if sorrow chills your heart, have two.
Hannu Lehmusvuori
Wine is a necessary tonic, a luxury, and a fitting tribute to good food.
Colette
Wine is made to be drunk as women are mad to be loved; profit by the freshness of youth or the splendor of maturity. Do not await decrepitude.
Theophile Malvezin
It's a naive domestic Burgundy without any breeding, but I think you'll be amused by its presumption.
James Thurber
Port is not for the very young, the vain, the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher.
Evelyn Waugh
Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used.
William Shakespeare
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
W.C. Fields
Good wine is a necessity of life.
Thomas Jefferson
Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.
André Simon
Always carry a corkscrew and the wine shall provide itself.
Basil Bunting
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
Samuel Johnson
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.
Clifton Fadiman
Wine cheers the sad, revives the old, and inspires the youth.
Lord Byron
If food is the body of good living, wine is its soul.
Clifton Fadiman
Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.
M.F.K. Fisher
Wine is the only beverage that feeds not only the body, but the soul and the spirit.
Robert Mondavi
No meal is ever dull when there is wine to drink and talk about.
André Simon
"It sloweth age, it strengtheneth youth, it helpeth digestion, it abandoneth melancholie, it relisheth the heart, it lighteneth the mind, it quickenth the spirits, it keepeth and preserveth the head from whirling, the eyes from dazzling, the tongue from lisping, the mouth from snaffling, the teeth from and the throat from rattling; it keepeth the stomach from wambling, the heart from swelling, the hands from shivering, the sinews from shrinking, the veins from crumbling, the bones from aching, and the marrow from soaking."
...from a 16th Century manuscript
Originally posted by widgetThanks,these quotes are great.
Quotes related to wine, Rav:
Wine improves with age. The older I get, the better I like it.
Anon
Great wine is an art. It sharpens the wit, gladdens the heart, and stimulates all that is most generous in human nature.
H. Warner Allen
In wine, one beholds the heart of another.
Anon
Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it m ...[text shortened]... mbling, the bones from aching, and the marrow from soaking."
...from a 16th Century manuscript
Originally posted by Vladamir no1lol
You're toooooo young to know....stick to your milk kiddo 🙂
I don't like beer much, although I like it more than milk... I prefer cocktails, because I think it's funny when drunkness suddenly kicks in. But yeah, that's just me... still sitting in front of my computer in jogging clothes at 20 past midnight, more than 2 hours after I came back... what a sad life I lead 🙁
Originally posted by angie88No no my princess....you live an enchanted life.............for u have met your prince
lol
I don't like beer much, although I like it more than milk... I prefer cocktails, because I think it's funny when drunkness suddenly kicks in. But yeah, that's just me... still sitting in front of my computer in jogging clothes at 20 past midnight, more than 2 hours after I came back... what a sad life I lead 🙁
Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine. ... David Moulton
DO RE MI DRINK
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DOUGH... the stuff... that buys me beer
RAY... the guy that sells me beer
ME... the one... who drinks the beer
FAR... a long run to get beer
SO... I'll have another beer
LA... I'll have another beer
TEA... no, thanks, I'm drinking beer
That will bring us back to (looks into empty glass) D'OH! ... Homer Simpson's beer song
I would rather commit adultery than drink a glass of beer.
... Lady Astor, Social reformer
Who wouldn't? ... A voice from the crowd
If I saved all the money I've spent on beer, I'd spend it on beer.
- Anon
Put it back in the horse! ... H. Allen Smith, an American humorist in the '30s-'50s, after he drank his first American beer at a bar.
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline--it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. ... Frank Zappa
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