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Tag Name "Ale" (54)

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God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
Anne Sexton
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England was merry England, when Old Christmas brought his sports again. 'Twas Christmas broach'd the mightiest ale 'Twas Christmas told the merriest tale A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Walter Scott
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A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
Walter Scott
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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
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It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.
Washington Irving
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But if at church they would give some ale. And a pleasant fire our souls to regale. We'd sing and we'd pray all the live long day, Nor ever once from the church to stray.
William Blake
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Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy and pleasant and warm.
William Blake
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I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.
William Butler Yeats
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Ale is meat, drink and cloth it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.
Jonathan Swift
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When daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy, over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year For the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. The white sheet bleaching on the hedge, With heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! Doth set my pugging tooth on edge For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
William Shakespeare
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Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!
William Shakespeare
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I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety.
William Shakespeare
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For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.
William Shakespeare
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Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.
Aesop
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She was luxuriously tired and her muscles felt sore from the unaccustomed strain of riding astride. Nothing had ever tasted so good as the cool golden ale she swallowed from a pewter tankard. She slept deeply that night and longer than she had intended.
Kathleen Winsor
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
A. E. Housman
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Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.
A. E. Housman
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Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale
John Phillips
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Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.
Greta Garbo
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Sweet is old wine in bottles, ale in barrels.
Lord Byron
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I put out a good 10 different types of drinks for them and they just said, Oh, okay, so it's just one choice. One choice? I gave you Coke, Pepsi, Ginger Ale, Sprite. They saw that as one choice. Now why was that one choice? Because they felt, well, it was just all soda.
Sheena Iyengar
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Some folks of cider make a rout And cider's well enough no doubt When better liquors fail But wine, that's richer, better still, Ev'n wine itself (deny't who will) Must yield to nappy ale
John Gay
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I'm 12 years sober, so I don't have beer! When I used to drink I really liked Bass Ale!
Kristin Davis
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It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.
Martin Luther
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