"I've made it a rule never to drink……" — H. L. Mencken

"I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark."

— H. L. Mencken

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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…

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More Beer Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
A drink a day keeps the shrink away. — Edward Abbey
A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom… — Roseanne Barr
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to… — Dave Barry
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. — Dave Barry
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. — Dave Barry
What may seem depressing or even tragic to one person may seem like an absolute scream to another person, especially… — Dave Barry
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? — Henry Ward Beecher
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger,… — Brendan Behan
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing. — Robert Benchley
I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. — Robert Benchley

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