Her har jeg samlet lidt citater om øl og dets forbandelser og velsignelser.
Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci.
Latin: Den får alle stemmer, som forstår at forene det nyttige med det behagelige.
Horats, 343, Romersk digter, 65-8 f. Kr
Øl smager godt og krummer ikke i sengen.
Total Petoleum, dansk musikgruppe
Øl er gud.
Total Petoleum, dansk musikgruppe
Øl er øl, som Goethe siger….
Storm P, 1882-1949, tegner, forfatter og maler
Øl kan gøre, hvad vand ikke kan.
Dansk talemåde
Øllets styrke, min svaghed.
Georg Holm, Underhåndsbrygmester
Øl og brød gør kinden rød.
Svensk talemåde
Kvinder er minder meget om øl. De dufter godt, de ser godt ud, og du ville træde på din egen mor for at få fat i en.
Homer Simpson, Tegneseriefigur
Åh, Lisa, dig og dine historier: Bart er er vampyr, øl dræber hjerneceller. Lad os tage tilbage til den bygning… ting… hvor vores senge og TV… øh… står.
Homer Simpson, Tegneseriefigur
Ok hjerne, jeg kan ikke lide dig og du kan ikke lide mig. Lad os få det her overstået så jeg kan vende tilbage til at dræbe dig langsomt med øl
Homer Simpson, Tegneseriefigur
Omne tulit punctum, qui miscuit utile dulci.
Latin: Den får alle stemmer, som forstår at forene det nyttige med det behagelige.
Horats, 343, Romersk digter, 65-8 f. Kr
Citater på engelsk
“Oh, lager beer! It makes good cheer, And proves the poor man’s worth; It cools the body through and through, and regulates the health.”
-Anonymous
“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.”
-Dave Barry
“Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.”
-Dave Barry
“The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.”
-Humphrey Bogart
“The sum of the matter is, the people drink because they wish to drink.”
-Rudolph Brand
“Beer will always have a definite role in the diet of an individual and can be considered a cog in the wheel of nutritional foods.”
-Bruce Carlton
“No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.”
-John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough
“Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.”
-Winston Churchill
“Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.”
-Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
“Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.”
-His reply
“If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.”
-David Daye
“A woman drove me to drink and I didn’t even have the decency to thank her.”
-W.C. Fields
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.”
-Benjamin Franklin
“The easiest way to spot a wanker in a pub is to look around and find who’s drinking a Corona with a slice of lemon in the neck.”
-Warwick Franks
“Always do sober what you said you’d do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
-Ernest Hemmingway
“We old folks have to find our cushions and pillows in our tankards. Strong beer is the milk of the old.”
-Martin Luther
“You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.”
-Dean Martin
“Whoever serves beer or wine watered down, he himself deserves in them to drown.”
-Midieval plea for pure libations
“Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.”
-David Moulton
“I drink to make other people interesting.”
-George Jean Nathan
“May the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends gathered below never fall out.”
-Old Irish Blessing
“May your glass be ever full. May the roof over your head be always strong. And may you be in heaven half an hour before the devil knows you’re dead.”
-Old Irish Toast
“A bar is better than a newspaper for public discussion.”
-Jim Parker, on the importance of a healthy pub culture
“He was a wise man who invented beer.”
-Plato
“God made pot. Man made beer. Who do you trust?”
-Restroom in The Irish Times, Washington DC
“…there is only one game at the heart of America and that is baseball, and only one beverage to be found sloshing at the depths of our national soul and that is beer.”
-Peter Richmond
“Beer needs baseball, and baseball needs beer – it has always been thus.”
-Peter Richmond
“Brewers enjoy working to make beer as much as drinking beer instead of working.”
-Harold Rudolph
“I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.”
-Homer Simpson
“All right, brain, I don’t like you and you don’t like me – so let’s just do this and I’ll get back to killing you with beer.”
-Homer Simpson
“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.”
-Frank Sinatra
“I never met a pub I didn’t like.”
-Pete Slosberg, Founder of Pete’s Brewing Company
“… bread, meat, vegetables and beer.”
-Sophocles’ philosophy of a moderate diet
“This is grain, which any fool can eat, but for which the Lord intended a more divine means of consumption… Beer!”
-Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves, Friar Tuck
“Fermentation may have been a greater discovery than fire.”
-David Rains Wallace
“Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.”
-Kaiser Welhelm
“I’m going to buy a boat… do a little travelling, and I’m going to be drinking beer!”
-John Welsh, Brooklyn bus driver who won $30 million in the New York lottery
“Beer: So much more than just a breakfast drink.”
-Whitstran Brewery sign
“Work is the curse of the drinking class.”
-Oscar Wilde
Alcohol, the cause and solution to all of life’s problems. Homer Simpson