"Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer"
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
About this Quote
This quote by Arnold Schwarzenegger is an amusing way of stressing the importance of growing up. By stating that milk is for babies, he is indicating that as grownups, we must be fully grown enough to carry on from the basics and attempt something more advanced. He is suggesting that beer is the drink of option for grownups, as it is a more complicated beverage than milk. This quote is also a reminder that growing up is a natural part of life, and that we should embrace the changes that feature it. It is an amusing way of encouraging us to take obligation for our actions and to take advantage of our lives.
"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"
"I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer"
"He asked if I was a songwriter, and I said yeah, that I was in town because I'd won this contest. He said, okay, then he was gonna play me his hit, and started singing 'When it's time to relax, one beer stands clear... '"
"I'd loved to wear jeans and t-shirts, but everybody was in the peace movement back then. And that was my ploy. I had to be careful not to say things like 'I like meat.' Actually I just wanted to drink beer and to screw"
"We're basically after Joe's beer money, and Joe likes his beer, so you better make sure that what you give him is at least as pleasurable to him as having his six-pack of beer would be"
"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco"
