Drinking Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drinking Innovation Invention Martini Perfect Sonnet
The three-martini lunch is the epitome of American efficiency. Where else can you get an earful, a bellyful and a snootful at the same… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
“A sonnet might look dinky, but it was somehow big enough to accommodate love, war, death, and O.J. Simpson. You could fit the whole… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture. — Elisabeth Shue Copy Share Image
“There is something about a Martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth-- I think that perhaps it's the gin." --Ogden Nash” — Lawrence Dunning Copy Share
“I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.” — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
“martinis, steak, and red wine, a proven formula for deep thinking,” — Robert M. Gates Copy Share Image
I think I had it in the back of my mind that I wanted to sound like a dry martini. — Paul Desmond Copy Share Image
Aside from the martini, the mint julep may be the most iconic cocktail in America. — Jonathan Miles 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
“We were still twirling around the tiny parking lot when the neighbors screamed 'Happy New Year'. Unfortunately we weren't sober enough to realize that… — Kaitlin Scott Copy Share Image
There is an idea that you can take the spiritual teachings of a religion outside of a religion and practice them; these ideas are… — Seyyed Hossein Nasr Copy Share Image
I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his… — Jeremy Scahill Copy Share Image
I guess that's the point of drinking, to take all the feelings and thoughts and morals away until you are just a body doing… — Anita Shreve Copy Share Image
This is not really currency that circulates. It's like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
And it´s so different for a lot of people I´ve known. One partner doesn´t love the other enough to stop drinking, or gambling, or… — Alma Katsu Copy Share Image
Drinking champagne after making love is like taking a bath in chilled pearls. — Anistatia R. Miller Copy Share Image
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