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Drinking Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.
- Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there…
- How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.
- The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.
- There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."
- We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
- A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
More Drinking Quotes
- The gods too are fond of a joke. — Aristotle
- Drinking intensifies all your pressures and your needs. — Desi Arnaz
- It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be… — David Bailey
- A drink a day keeps the shrink away. — Edward Abbey
- Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own… — Roseanne Barr
- I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not, it seems to me that he… — James M. Barrie
- Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water,… — Dave Barry
- You can't drown yourself in drink. I've tried, you float. — John Barrymore
- A gourmet who thinks of calories is like a tart who looks at her watch. — James Beard
- I am a drinker with writing problems. — Brendan Behan
- Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini? — Robert Benchley
- Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with that it's compounding a felony. — Robert Benchley