That wine drinking is more effete than beer drinking? No…

No animal ever invented anything as bad as drunkenness - or so good as drink.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Wine drinking goes back at least six thousand years. Wine writing probably began a year or two later.

— Frank J. Prial

He hesitated, then lifted his head and sniffed. “Have you been drinking?” The question was more curious than accusatory. “No,” Bast said. The innkeeper…

— Patrick Rothfuss

Beer, if drank with moderation, softens the temper, cheers the spirit, and promotes health.

— Thomas Jefferson

I feel sorry for people who do not have a Bible to lean on.

— Adrian Rogers

Let us drink for the replenishment of our strength, not for our sorrow

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.

— Adolphus Busch

Beer: Helping ugly people have sex since 3000 B. C.

— W. C. Fields

In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams…

— Dave Barry

Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it.

— Ray Bradbury

With sport went beer drinking and gambling - until recently restricted by the wowsers, but part of that code of mateship of men, that…

— Donald Horne

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

— Leo Durocher

It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are…

— Thomas de Quincey

I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death.

— Jack Kerouac

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

— George Bernard Shaw