H. L. Mencken Quotes about Drinking

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

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

H. L. Mencken

Drinking, Two, Honest

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

H. L. Mencken

Inspirational, Drinking, Knowledge

"A Mencken chrestomathy". Book by Henry Louis Mencken, 1949.

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

H. L. Mencken

Food, Drinking, Dark

New York Post 18 Sept. 1945

The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so many convicts in the death-house, but the lovely and useless things, the charming and exhilarating things, are best done by men with, as the phrase is, a few sheets in the wind.

H. L. Mencken

Drinking, Men, Wind

H. L. MENCKEN (1924). “PREJUDICES FOURTH SERIES”

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

H. L. Mencken

Dog, Drinking, Beer

The martini: the only American invention as perfect as the sonnet.

H. L. Mencken

Drinking, Perfect, Invention

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

H. L. Mencken

Drinking, Food, Men

I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.

H. L. Mencken

Drinking, Alcohol, Want

Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there is a choice, the milder drink is always the better-not merely the safer but the better. The second is that no really enlightened drinker ever takes a drink at a time when he has any work to do. There is, of course, more to it than this; but these are sufficient for the beginner, and even the virtuoso never outgrows them.

H. L. Mencken

Lying, Drinking, Simple