Ben Schwalb quotes

“They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand.”
-- Ben Schwalb

#Beer Quotes #Hands Quotes #Cold Quotes

“Oh I have been to Ludlow fair, and left my necktie God knows where. And carried half way home, or near, pints and quarts of Ludlow beer.”

“You can only drink 30 or 40 glasses of beer a day, no matter how rich you are.”

“Beer was the driving force that led nomadic mankind into village life. It was this appetite for beer-making material that led to crop cultivation, permanent settlement and agriculture.”

“Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of A. E. Housman (Illustrated)”, p.19, Delphi Classics

“O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.”

Source : Aaron Hill (1760). “Muses in mourning. Zara, to which is added, an interlude, never before printed. Snake in the grass. Alzira. Saul. Daraxes. Merope. Roman revenge. Insolvent. Some love letters, by the author”, p.147

“But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.”

“A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows.”

“I was beginning to understand.My grandmother's love was cold because she was afraid of things;that was why everything had to be perfect.”

“but, he also said it because part of him wanted more of her, this cold woman who was not exactly cold, this rock who was not stone.”

“I actually have no aspirations to ride a motorcycle ever again. Its exhausting. You get cold.”