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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think. — A.E. Housman

The roots and herbes beaten and put into new ale or beer and daily drunk, cleareth, strengtheneth and quickeneth the sight of the eyes. — Nicholas Culpeper

Dowry - a dowry that was quickly spent on gambling, women and ale. — Bella Forrest

Sir Toby Belch: "Dost think because thou art virtuous there shall be no more cakes and ale?" (Twelfth Night) — William Shakespeare

I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now. — William Butler Yeats

We don't lock up books in this house," Philippe said, "only food, ale, and wine. Reading Herodotus or Aquinas seldom leads to bad behavior. — Deborah Harkness

My destiny is you, and to you I walk. — Ale Meza-Santiago

when a man's said what he means, he'd better stop, for th' ale 'ull be none the better for stannin'. An — George Eliot

As Antony said to Cleopatra, as he opened a crate of ale;
Oh I say, some girls are bigger than others. — Morrissey

We're out of gonger ale! — David Hoover

Old G.K. knew when to fast and when to down a good ale. It's the timing. It's all in the timing. [On G.K. Chesterton] — Michael D. O'Brien

GIVE ME A WHISKEY...GINGER ALE ON THE SIDE...AND DONT BE STINGY BABY — Garbo

Bartender! Vring me some viskey with chincher ale on de side & don't be stingy, baby. (Garbo's first words in a talking picture) — Greta Garbo

Life is simple," I said. "Ale, women, sword, and reputation. Nothing else matters. — Bernard Cornwell

What I am interested in, what I write and care about, exists in the slow lane, somewhere between hand-ploughed fields and a pint of real ale. — Fennel Hudson

Durzo gazed into the frothy brown ale as if it held answers. It didn't, — Brent Weeks

Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale," Ser Arlan had once told him, "it may be a year before you see another. — George R R Martin

So laugh, lads, and quaff, lads, twill make you stout and hale; through all my days, I'll sing the praise of brown October ale. — Reginald De Koven

There is more food in a pennyworth of bread than in a gallon of ale. — Joseph Livesey

I have great affection for you, Roy" I answered, "but I don't think you are the sort of person I'd care to have breakfast with. — W. Somerset Maugham

It's a fair wind that blew men to ale. — Washington Irving

Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels. — Lord Byron

He took another sip of ale, and began talking lovingly of breads and pies and tarts, all the things he loved. Arya rolled her eyes. — George R R Martin

Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale. — Robert Burns

And he set to rhyme his ale-measures,
And he sang aloud his laws,
Because of the joy of giants,
The joy without a cause. — G.K. Chesterton

May the hair on his toes never fall out! all praise to his wine and ale! — J.R.R. Tolkien

Whoever takes just plain ginger ale soon gets drowned out of the conversation. — Kin Hubbard

I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale! — Kristin Davis

I should like a great lake of ale, for the King of Kings. I should like the family of heaven to be drinking it through time eternal. — Brigit Of Kildare

Ireland?" he said. "I'm from Ireland! Why do you think I came here?" he said. "Nothing good in Ireland." He frowned. "Except the ale. The ale is fine. — A.C. Gaughen

If nothing worse than Ale happens to us, we are well off. — Charles Dickens

Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? — William Shakespeare

I was about to add it was as likely a friendship as Lucifer and the Archangel Michael sharing a jug of ale, but I stopped myself. [Vincent] — Karen Maitland

It comes in pints? — Peter Jackson

Not knowing is another form of torture. — Ale Meza-Santiago

I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale. — George Farquhar

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether. — Thomas Nash

Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm. — William Blake

Not everything is a love story. — Ale Meza-Santiago

He was her father after all. True, a father whose funeral rite she planned to dance at and toast with ale, but her father just the same. — G.A. Aiken

Just because your head knows something it does not mean that your heart agrees. — Ale Meza-Santiago

Can't even sleep through the night without you and those sun-dried ginger ale complected limbs crocheted into my thighs ... — Brandi L. Bates

They're the sort of dozy bastards who don't think beyond their next pot of ale, but Thomas does, Thomas is a two-pot thinker, he is. — Bernard Cornwell

Brusco had a bad back, and could not lift anything heavier than a tankard of brown ale. — George R R Martin

Ale, not beer, in a pewter mug was comme il faut, the only thing for a gentleman of letters, worthy of the name, to drink. — Guy De Maupassant

Dodger grabbed the tiny coin. "Can read "beer", "gin" and "ale". No sense in filling your head with stuff you don't need, that's what I always say. — Terry Pratchett

Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb. — Jonathan Swift

For a quart of Ale is a dish for a king. — William Shakespeare

Liberty Ale would become quite possibly the most important beer of the late twentieth century — Tom Acitelli

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games. — Tom Hodgkinson

A man may prefer the taste of hippocras, yet if you set a tankard of ale before him, he will quaff it quick enough. — George R R Martin

There is a saying from the Southlands that there is truth in wine. There must be a bit of it in ale, also. — Robin Hobb

And brought of mighty ale a large quart. — Geoffrey Chaucer

Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife — Scott Lynch

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church. — Martin Luther

Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale, that is good ale. — George Henry Borrow

Ale for a tale. That's the fairest trade I know. — Adam Gidwitz

Saint George he was for England, And before he killed the dragon he drank a pint of English ale out of an English flagon. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you. — Steve Kluger

Homer no function beer well without. — Homer

Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby. — Greta Garbo

Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale. — William Shakespeare

Mulled ale for the frozen man,
And mulled ale for the weary:
For mulled ale is the body's friend
And makes the sick heart merry. — Frans G. Bengtsson

If you want to feel like ginger ale Claire, drink a ginger ale. — Ann Hood

Philosophy only seems to offer endless dispute, with no cakes and ale. — Keith Ward

I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety. — William Shakespeare

Idle men make mischief, especially idle men supplied with ale, whores, and weapons. — Bernard Cornwell

May you always have ale enough to wet your tongues, wit enough to know friend from foe, and strength enough for every fight. — Stephen R. Lawhead

Note, that yeast of good Beer, is better then that of Ale. — Kenelm Digby

If there's one thing that makes a man sick, it's to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand. — Daphne Du Maurier

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear. — Aesop

Last summer had meant lots of Sam Adams Summer Ale by herself on hot weekend days when it seemed like just her and the Dominican Day parade. — Stephanie Clifford