{"id":50680,"date":"2024-10-16T12:03:36","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T16:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/?p=50680"},"modified":"2026-09-29T22:24:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T02:24:38","slug":"25-timeless-quotes-about-beer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebeertimes.com\/en\/25-timeless-quotes-about-beer\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Timeless Quotes About Beer and Who Really Said Them"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beer has kept company with writers, musicians, politicians and even Homer Simpson, and many of them left memorable lines about this ancient drink<\/a>. Some of the most shared quotes on the internet, however, were never said by the people they are attributed to, and this selection points that out in each case.<\/p>\n

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This is our selection of 25 quotes about beer, with their author and, when the attribution is false or has no source, the correct version or the corresponding warning.<\/p>\n

Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes to be changed into wine, a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Benjamin Franklin, inventor and statesman. The popular version saying that beer is proof that God loves us is false, since in his letter to Andr\u00e9 Morellet Franklin was talking about wine (Quote Investigator<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Beer is intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ray Bradbury, writer<\/p>\n

Most people hate the taste of beer to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Winston Churchill, British prime minister<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Dave Barry, writer<\/p>\n

Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Attributed to Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, with no documented source<\/p>\n

You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Frank Zappa, musician<\/p>\n

A man who lies about beer makes enemies.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Stephen King, writer<\/p>\n

The best beer is where the monks go to drink.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Attributed to William Shakespeare, although it does not appear in his works. What he did write, in The Winter’s Tale, is that “a quart of ale is a dish for a king”.<\/p>\n

Nothing tastes better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hugh Hood, writer<\/p>\n

Rational society informs the mind, sweetens the temper, cheers our spirits, and promotes health.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thomas Jefferson, US president. The line that circulates about beer drunk in moderation is spurious according to the Monticello archive, and it derives from this sentence in a letter to James Madison (Monticello<\/a>).<\/p>\n

What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Edgar Allan Poe, writer, in his poem Lines on Ale<\/p>\n

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What he really needed was a cold bottle of beer, with the label a little wet and those beautiful drops on the surface of the glass.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Charles Bukowski, writer<\/p>\n

When everyone leaves for other planets, I will stay in the abandoned city, drinking one last glass of beer<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Jorge Teillier, Chilean poet<\/p>\n

Warm beer and cold women, I just don’t fit in every dive I stumble into tonight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Tom Waits, musician, in his song Warm Beer and Cold Women<\/p>

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To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Homer Simpson. The version that circulates speaks of beer, but in the episode the toast is to alcohol.<\/p>\n

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The search for the perfect pint should last a lifetime.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Attributed to Michael Jackson, journalist and writer<\/p>\n

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Beer makes you feel the way you ought to feel without beer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Henry Lawson, writer<\/p>\n

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Beer is the best damn drink in the world.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Jack Nicholson, actor<\/p>\n

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anne Sexton, poet<\/p>\n

Isn’t beer the sacred drink of sincerity? The potion that dissolves all hypocrisy, every farce of good manners? The drink that urges us to piss without shame and grow fat without worry?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Milan Kundera, writer<\/p>\n

There is an ancient Celtic axiom that says “Good people drink good beer.” Which is true, then as now. Just look around you in any public barroom and you will quickly see, bad people drink bad beer. Think about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and writer<\/p>\n

He was a wise man who invented beer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Attributed to Plato, although it does not appear in any of his works<\/p>\n