Alas Quote by Louis Untermeyer Download Open image “Life, alas, is very drear. Up with the glass! Down with the beer!” — Louis Untermeyer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alas Beer Beer drinking Brewing beer Drinking Drinking beer Drinking whiskey Funny Funny beer Glasses Inspirational Life Love Short beer Short drinking Whiskey drinking
A glass of beer shortens your life by one minute, a glass of wine by two minutes, and a day of work by seven… — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
You from within our glasses, you lusty golden brew, whoever imbibes takes fire from you. The young and the old sing your praises. Here's… — Bedrich Smetana Copy Share Image
I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god… — Tom Petty Copy Share Image
Life like a good bottle of wine doesn't last forever, sip it and savour the taste. — Harry Lewis Copy Share Image
From compromise and things half done, Keep me with stern and stubborn pride; And when at last the fight is won, God, keep me… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
Poetry is the power of defining the indefinable in terms of the unforgettable. — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
God, though this life is but a wraith, Although we know not what we use, Although we grope with little faith, Give me the… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
Nothing but blackness above And nothing that moves but the cars... God, if you wish for our love, Fling us a handful of stars! — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
What hymns are sung. What praises said. For homemade miracles of bread? — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung and praises said For the home made miracle of… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
Why has our poetry eschewed The rapture and response of food? What hymns are sung, what praises said For home-made miracles of bread? — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
And fathers are a blessing, too, they give the place a tone; In fact each child should try and have some parents of its… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
Friendship is like love at its best; not blind but sympathetically all-seeing; a support which does not wait for understanding; an act of faith… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
Laughter shall drown the raucous shout; And, though these shelt'ring walls are thin, May they be strong to keep hate out And hold love… — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
She has something to say about what life is like-which is all we ask of poetry. — Louis Untermeyer Copy Share Image
We are all potentially such sick men. The sanest and best of us are of one clay with lunatics and prison-inmates. And whenever we… — William James Copy Share Image
Alas, you don't need monsters for monstrous deeds to be accomplished. — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Time, time - that is our greatest master! Alas, like Ugolino, time devours its own children. — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
Alas, Postumus, the fleeting years slip by, nor will piety give any stay to wrinkles and pressing old age and untamable death. — Horace Copy Share Image
Sensible Catholics have for generations been ignoring the views on contraception held by reactionary old men in the Vatican, but alas, since it is… — A.C. Grayling Copy Share Image
In spite of the honestest efforts to annihilate my I-ity, or merge it in what the world doubtless considers my better half, I still… — Jane Welsh Carlyle Copy Share Image
The dumpling is indeed of more ancient institution, and of foreign origin; but alas, what were those dumplings? Nothing but a few lentils sodden… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image