Alcohol Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain,” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Alcohol Complaining Long Praise
As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No use complaining, don't you worry, don't you wine. Cause if you get it wrong, you'll get it right next time. — Gerry Rafferty Copy Share Image
It's not like I'm against alcohol. It's just a decision I made, and if you've never had it, you don't miss it. I've been… — James Milner Copy Share Image
I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I like my wine and vodka, but that doesn't mean I fall about drunk. I know my limits. — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
I am as drunk as a lord, but then, I am one, so what does it matter ? — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I have gotten from there to here without committing murder or being murdered; without having ended up in the madhouse. as I drink alone again tonight my soul despite all the past agony thanks all the… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share
No one really needs to defend drinking. That's something that frustrates me as a comic: I have to play clubs where selling booze runs… — Doug Benson Copy Share Image
Being satisfied, from observation and experience, as well as from medical testimony, that ardent spirit as a drink is not only needless but hurtful;… — Andrew Jackson Copy Share Image
I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety. — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Stay yourselves, and wonder; cry ye out, and cry: they are drunken, but not with wine; they stagger, but not with strong drink. — Bible Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm Catholic and I can't commit suicide, but I plan to drink myself to death. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Stronger than alcohol, vaster than poetry, Ferment the freckled red bitterness of love! — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine. — John Milton Copy Share Image
[As in the case of] alcohol prohibition, illegality has driven organized crime, sent countless people to jail, and killed many thousands. Repression does not… — Sam Branson Copy Share Image
You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I… — Tyson Beckford Copy Share Image
Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
In 1969, I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life. — George Best Copy Share Image
Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's house unless they have a well-stocked bar. — W. C. Fields Copy Share Image
Blunt force didn't knock out the drug epidemic. 21 million Americans are addicted to drugs or alcohol. And half of all federal inmates are… — Michael Botticelli Copy Share Image
I go to parties sometimes until four, it's hard to leave when you can't find the door. — Joe Walsh Copy Share Image
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