Legends
"Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
Benjamin Franklin, (1706-1790).

"It is disgusting to notice the increase in the quantity of coffee used by my subjects, and the amount of money that goes out of the country as a consequence. Everybody is using coffee; this must be prevented. His Majesty was brought up on beer, and so were both his ancestors and officers. Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war."
Frederick the Great of Prussia (1777), from Scientific American, June 1998.

"He was a wise man who invented beer."
Plato (Greek philosopher) 428- 347 BC

"What two ideas are more inseparable than Beer and Britannia?"
Sydney Smith (1771-1845) English writer and Anglican clergyman, quoted in Hesketh Pearson's 'The Smith of Smiths'

"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer."
Arnold Schwarzenegger (1975)

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
Frank Zappa

"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

"People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot."
Capital Brewery, Middleton, WI.
"I'm only a beer teatotaller, not a champagne teatotaller."
George Bernard Shaw

"Those who drink beer will think beer."
Washington Irving, American author (1783-1859)

"Most people hate the taste of beer - to begin with. It is, however, a prejudice that many people have been able to overcome."
Winston Churchill