H. L. Mencken Quotes About Drinking

• 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.

• 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”

• 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

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Two, Honest

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

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Perfect, Invention

• How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.

  H. L. Mencken

  Drinking, Years, Gentleman

• 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

• 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

• 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

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