ALE AND BEER

Related Subjects: Drinking, Wine

1.  I, being dry, sit idly sipping here
   My beer.—GEORGE ARNOLD, Beer

2. A double glass o' the inwariable.—DICKENS, Pickwick Papers

3. God made yeast, as well as dough, and loves fermentation just as dearly as he loves vegetation.—EMERSON, Essays

4. Oh many a peer of England brews
   Livelier liquor than the Muse,
   And malt does more than Milton can
   To justify God's ways to man.
   Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink,
   For fellows whom it hurts to think.
   Look into the pewter pot
   To see the world as the world's not.—A. E. HOUSMAN, A Shropshire Lad

5. The man who called it "near beer" was a bad judge of distance.—PHILANDER JOHNSON, Shooting Stars

6. Then to the spicy nut-brown ale.—MILTON, L'Allegro

7. Throw all the beer and spirits into the Irish Channel, the English Channel, and the North Sea for a year, and people in England would be infinitely better. It would certainly solve all the problems with which the philanthropists, the physicians, and the politicians have to deal.—SIR WILLIAM OSLER, Life of Sir. William Osler

8. Back and side go bare, go bare,
   Both foot and hand go cold:
   But, belly, God send thee good ale enough
   Whether it be new or old.—BISHOP STILL, Gammer Gurton's Needle

9. All-powerful Ale! whose sorrow-soothing sweets
   Oft I repeat in vacant afternoon.—THOMAS WARTON, A Panegyric on Oxford Ale