Famous beer quotes form U.S. Presidents, writers, actors, comedians, punk rockers and more.
Jack Nicholson – Actor
“Beer, it’s the best damn drink in the world.”
Frank Zappa – Musician
“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 in the very least you need a beer.”
Plato – Classical Greek philosopher
“He was a wise man who invented beer.”
Tina Fey – Comedian and writer
“In a study, scientists report that drinking beer can be good for the liver. I’m sorry, did I say ‘scientists’? I meant Irish people.”
Thomas Jefferson – Third U.S. President
Thoughts on the matter: “Beer, if drunk in moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit and promotes health.”
Sid Vicious – Punk Rocker
“I’ve only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.”
Martin Luther – Protestant Reformation
“Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!”
Martin Luther – Protestant Reformation
“Beer is made by men, wine by God.”
Henry David Thoreau – American author, poet
Thoughts on the matter: “Instead of water we got here a draught of beer…a lumberer’s drink, which would acclimate and naturalize a man at once—which would make him see green, and, if he slept, dream that he heard the wind sough among the pines.”
Winston Churchhill – British Prime Minister
Thoughts on the matter: “Most people hate the taste of beer—to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice.”
J.P. Donleavy – Irish-American novelist
Thoughts on the matter: “When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?”
Bill Carter – Writer, documentary maker
Thoughts on the matter: “There is no such thing as a bad beer. It’s that some taste better than others.”
Russell Crowe – Actor, The Gladiator
Thoughts on the matter: “I have respect for beer.”
Anne Sexton – Poet, writer
Thoughts on the matter: “God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.”
Benjamin Franklin – Inventor, Diplomat, Publisher and Founding Father
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
Milan Kundera – Author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“Isn’t beer the holy libation of sincerity? The potion that dispels all hypocrisy, any charade of fine manners? The drink that does nothing worse than incite its fans to urinate in all innocence, to gain weight in all frankness?”
Ray Bradbury – Sci-fi author, book lover
“Beer’s intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.”
Charles Bukowski – Author, drinker
“stay with the beer. beer is continuous blood. a continuous lover.”
Stephen King – Author
“A man who lies about beer makes enemies.”
William Shakespeare – Playwright
Thoughts on the matter: “For a quart of Ale is a dish for a king.”
Abraham Lincoln – U.S. president
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.”
Dave Barry – Humorist and writer(Dave Barry comes up with some of the best beer quotes of all time)
“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.”
Thomas Pynchon – Author, Gravity’s Rainbow
Thoughts on the matter: “Oh, this beer here is cold, cold and hop-bitter, no point coming up for air, gulp, till it’s all–hahhhh.”
Edgar Allan Poe – poet
“Fill with mingled cream and amber,
I will drain that glass again.
Such hilarious visions clamber
Through the chambers of my brain.
Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies,
Come to life and fade away:
What care I how time advances?
I am drinking ale today.”
Hunter S. Thompson – Wild-card, drug consumer
“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.”
Sylvia Plath – American Poet
“The beer tastes good to my throat, cold and bitter, and the three boys and the beer and the queer freeness of the situation makes me feel like laughing forever. So I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on top of the beer can. I am looking very healthy and flushed and bright-eyed, having both a good tan and a rather excellent fever.”
Hugh Hood – Canadian essayist, professor
“Nothing ever tasted better than a cold beer on a beautiful afternoon with nothing to look forward to than more of the same.”
Kaiser Wilhelm – Last King of Prussia(With all these beer quotes, at least one had to come from Baveria.
“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.”
Ellen Kushner, The Fall of the Kings
“Across the troubled maelstrom of time, people always need a beer.”
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