"There are two impossibilities in life: "just one……" — H. L. Mencken

"There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician.""

— 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 Drink Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — Wystan Hugh Auden
It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself… — Wystan Hugh Auden
I can't drink whiskey like I used to back then, that's for sure. — Sebastian Bach
Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to… — Francis Bacon
I don't have any particular thing I do ritualistically. I do the same thing every day. I get up. Drink… — Erykah Badu
I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China,… — Antonio Banderas
A drink a day keeps the shrink away. — Edward Abbey
I juice a lot; I get as much protein as I can, because being a vegan, there isn't much protein.… — Travis Barker
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

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