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  • I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctive than the smell of walnutleaf or camphor, and is incommunicable by any means to another man.

    Mean   Men   Smell  
    Gerard Manley Hopkins (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Illustrated)”, p.1880, Delphi Classics
  • "What is your best, your very best, ale a glass?" "Two pence halfpenny," says the landlord, "is the price of the Genuine Stunning Ale." "Then," says I, producing the money, "just draw me a glass of the Genuine Stunning, if you please, with a good head on it."

    Beer   Glasses   Two  
  • Save your wack rhymes, hold your female. Pass the Old Gold, trash the ale. Cash your food stamps, get the WIC out the mail. Love to eat shrimps, but I never eat snail, Eat a whole fish except for the tail. Keep food in the fridge so it don't get stale, And when there's nothing to eat...I bite my nails.

    Rap   Hip Hop   Gold  
    Song: On the Bugged Tip, Album: Long Live the Kane
  • 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.

    Sweet   Kings   Spring  
    'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 4, sc. 2, l. 1
  • Wine is constant proof that God loves us and likes to see us happy.

  • They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together.

    Air   Unhappy   Together  
    F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.115, Cambridge University Press
  • 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.

    Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.
  • Gimme a visky with a ginger ale on the side - and don't be stinchy, beby.

    Book   Sides   Ale  
    Sven Broman, Greta Garbo (1992). “Conversations with Greta Garbo”, G K Hall & Company
  • God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

    Humorous   Beer   Voice  
    Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Lo! the poor toper whose untutored sense, Sees bliss in ale, and can with wine dispense; Whose head proud fancy never taught to steer, Beyond the muddy ecstasies of beer.

    Wine   Beer   Proud  
    'Inebriety' (in imitation of Pope, 1775) pt. 1, l. 132.
  • 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.

    Beer   Fire   Long  
    William Blake (1966). “Complete Writings: With Variant Readings”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA
  • 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.

    Running   Kids   Games  
    "Mind the beer, dear" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2006.
  • Oatcakes are a delicate relish when eaten warm with ale.

    Ale   Delicate   Relish  
  • A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.

    Christmas   Xmas   Cheer  
    Sir Walter Scott (1838). “Poetical works”, p.278
  • Ale: Are you manipulating me again? T.C.: Try not to fall for it. I dare you.

    Fall   Trying   Ale  
  • Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain — Quaintest thoughts — queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today.

    Food   Drinking   Beer  
    Edgar Allan Poe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated)”, p.229, Delphi Classics
  • I like a good beer. Of course, I'll drink a bad one too. Let no person thirst for lack of real ale! Thank god for long-necked bottles, the angel's remedy.

    Real   Angel   Beer  
  • 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.

    Book   Drinking   Beer  
    Dave Barry (2012). “The Greatest Invention in the History of Mankind Is Beer: And Other Manly Insights from Dave Barry”, p.112, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • Joscelin, is love supposed to make you feel like you’re sick and dying, and mad enough to hit someone and drunk with joy, and your heart’s a boulder n your chest trying to burst into a thousand pieces all at once?” “Mm-hmm.” He finished his ale. “That would be love.

    Heart   Drunk   Mad  
  • Why, if 'tis dancing you would be, There's brisker pipes than poetry. Say, for what were hop-yards meant, Or why was Burton built on Trent? 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.

    Hurt   Drinking   Men  
    Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62
  • Last time I was sick, the guy I was seeing brought me a bottle of ginger ale… and expected me to pay him back for it. ~Jaime Vegas

    Vegas   Sick   Guy  
  • Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

    Peace   Fear   Food  
    Aesop (2015). “Aesop's Fables”, p.8, Pelekanos Books
  • SodaStream is a company that is not only committed to the environment, but to building a bridge to peace between Israel and Palestine, supporting neighbors working alongside each other, receiving equal pay, equal benefits and equal rights. That is what is happening in their Ma'ale Adumim factory every working day.

    Bridges   Rights   Israel  
    "Oxfam under pressure to cut ties with Scarlett Johansson over SodaStream ad" by Matthew Kalman, www.theguardian.com. January 29, 2014.
  • Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. "She needed it." Father says it isn't good to give money to beggers. They'll only spend it unwisely on drink or other pleasures. "She might buy ale with it." He shrugs. "Then she'll have ale. It isn't the pound that matters; it's the hope...I know what it's like to fight for things that others take for granted.

    Father   Fighting   Rocks  
    Libba Bray (2010). “The Sweet Far Thing”, p.299, Simon and Schuster
  • Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

    Wise   Cat   Men  
    Jonathan Swift (1861). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: With Copious Notes and Additions, and a Memoir of the Author”, p.80
  • If there’s one thing that makes a man sick, it’s to have his ale poured out of an ugly hand.

    Men   Hands   Sick  
    Daphne du Maurier, Lisa Evans (2004). “Jamaica Inn”, p.15, Oberon Books
  • Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.

    Hurt   Beer   Men  
    Shropshire Lad (1896) no. 62
  • It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

  • Shoulder the sky, my lad, and drink your ale.

    Beer   Sky   Ale  
    Last Poems (1922) no. 9
  • For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.

    Drinking   Beer   Ale  
    Anthony Bourdain (2010). “The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing
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