"A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do." -Walter Bagehot   

"The more deeply one studies the inner workings of life, the more wonderful and
expansive they become. The more one studies the outer, the less it means and the
more ignorant become those who engage in it solely" -Benjamin Franklin

The Beer Prayer

Our lager,
Which art in barrels,
Hallowed be thy drink,
Thy will be drunk,
(I will be drunk),
At home as I am in the tavern.
Give us this day our foamy head,
And forgive us our spillages,
As we forgive those who spill against us,
and lead us not to incarceration,
But deliver us from hangovers,
For thine is the beer,
The bitter and the lager,
Forever and ever,
Barmen.