Quotes.....
Beer
"What two ideas are more
inseparable than Beer and Britannia?"
Sydney Smith
"Beer is proof that God loves us
and wants us to be happy."
Benjamin Franklin,
"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
"People who drink light "beer"
don't like the taste of beer; they just like to pee a lot."
Capital Brewery
"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
"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
British Food
"To eat well in England you should
have breakfast three times a day."
W. Somerset Maugham
"On the Continent people have good
food; in England people have good table manners."
George Mikes, British author
I'll bet what motivated the British
to colonize so much of the world is that they were just looking for a
decent meal."
Martha Harrison
"What? Sunday morning in an English family and no sausages? God bless my soul, what's the world coming to, eh?"
Dorothy Sayers, British writer
Britain
"Britain is not an island...well,
yes it is, but..."
Unidentified MP, on BBC Radio 4
Irish
"I've always been conscious of
being Irish. I mean, I sort of ... I look Irish. I am Irish."
Bill Clinton
Indian Food
"Playwrights
are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant.
After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of
asparagus."
Peter Ustinov,
The English
I know why the sun never sets on the
British Empire, God would never trust an Englishman in the dark
Duncan Spaeth
An
Englishman will burn his bed to catch a flea
Turkish saying
On a fine day the climate of England is looking up a
chimney, on a foul day it is like looking down
Anonymous
Scotland
"OATS-A grain which in England is
generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
"In Scotland we have
a verdict not proven. That means not guilty, but don't do it again."
- Andrew Brodie
USA quotes
"President Bush is due to address
the nation in approximately 20 minutes
precisely."
Peter Jennings, ABC News
"The City of Rochester (Michigan)
is considering a ban on smoking at the park
because people are leaving their butts on the beach."
Announcer, WJR Radio, Detroit
