H. L. Mencken Quotes

When we did that kind of stuff our only rule was... Well, we didn't have any rules, really, but my rule, because I was the drinker of the group, was not at any time of the day before the night we're working.

Drinking is in reality an occupation which employs a considerable portion of the time of many people; and to conduct it in the most rational and agreeable manner is one of the great arts of living.

I'd like to help you, but you don't drink.

When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.

I drink when I have occasion, and sometimes when I have no occasion.

I've been drinking tequila for a long time now, and it's never been about drinking to get drunk. I don't do that. I never drink tequila during the day, and I don't drive at night.

Drinking habits were very prevalent among men, and were not in any way disgraceful, unless excessive.

I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.

There was one civil custom used in (and in few but) the English nation, which this gentleman did endeavour to abolish in this country; and that was, the usage of drinking to one another. For although by drinking to one another, no more is meant than an act of courtesie, when one going to drink, does invite another to do so too, for the same ends with himself; nevertheless the governour considered the impertinency and insignifcancy of this usage, as to any of those ends that are usually pretended for it ; and that indeed it ordinarily served for no ends at all, but only to provoke persons unto, unseasonable and perhaps unreasonable drinking, and at last produce that abominable health-drinking.

I used to go to the saloons with the baseball players, and while they would drink highballs and gin fizzes and beer, I would take lemonade

Evidence...proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

After the White House, what is there to do but drink?

My wife doesn't drink. I don't think a girl's desire to drink or not has any effect on guys. At all.

That was my first real connection with Dre - that we both liked to drink.

I don't drink beer, and I don't drink at home.

I'm not usually a drinker.

I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer.

Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

Other countries drink to get drunk, and this is accepted by everyone; in France, drunkenness is a consequence, never an intention. A drink is felt as the spinning out of a pleasure, not as the necessary cause of an effect which is sought: wine is not only a philtre, it is also the leisurely act of drinking.

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

Were I to prescribe a rule for drinking, it should be formed upon a saying quoted by Sir William Temple: the first glass for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the fourth for mine enemies.

And no one drank just one shot of tequila.

It’s too much of a drinking culture, everything tastes better with a drink. Like, watch TV: glass of wine. Cooking dinner: glass of champagne. White wine vinegar hasn’t got white wine in it. Has it?

I do partake in a couple of drinks now and again, but I've never drank to feel alive.

There is drinking in lots of the songs because there is drinking in life. Drinking stimulates the imagination.