Root Beer Float

Famous quotes containing the words root, beer and/or float:

    “A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.”
    —Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)

    “What two ideas are more inseparable than beer and Britannia?”
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    “Come hither, all ye empty things,
    Ye bubbles rais’d by breath of Kings;
    Who float upon the tide of state,
    Come hither, and behold your fate.
    Let pride be taught by this rebuke,
    How very mean a thing’s a Duke;
    From all his ill-got honours flung,
    Turn’d to that dirt from whence he sprung.”
    —Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)