Drink Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Drink Drinking Honest Impossibility Just one Life Politician Politics Two
“If a man’s a constant hand-shaker, he must be a politician or a crook—or both, if he is a politician.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water — Gregory David Roberts Copy Share Image
“Nobody is either honest or dishonest. Life is a gradient, and a saint might be an 8.7, and a dirtbag politician might be a… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Being a politician is a lot like being an alcoholic in denial.” — Huntley Fitzpatrick Copy Share Image
A politician weakly and amiably in the right, is no match for a politician tenaciously and pugnaciously in the wrong. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are two types of drinkers: those who drink to enhance their personalities, and those who sought to take something away.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald 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
Before Noah, men having only water to drink, could not find the truth. Accordingly...they became abominably wicked, and they were justly exterminated by the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander 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
I still get nervous about singing. I drink tea with honey and lemon before every concert. And I need to have scented candles in… — Mary J. Blige Copy Share Image
I've never even been into those supplements or any of that. I don't even drink energy shakes. I'm not into that kind of stuff.… — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
I get pretty focused when I start working on something. And I drink a lot of water, way more than most people. — Nick Woodman Copy Share Image
Like the water of a deep stream, love is always too much. We did not make it. Though we drink till we burst, we… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time loathing the sentences that I put down on the page. Once I'm past that phase, it doesn't really… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image