Write me as one that loves his fellow-men.
H. L. Hunt
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TAHEREH MAFI If we are to accept the teaching of Jesus at all, then the only test of the reality of a man's relig...
WILLIAM BARCLAY As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. -H. L. Mencken.
H. L. MENCKEN If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love ...
GERMAINE GREER If a person loves only one other person, and is indifferent to his fellow men, his love is not love ...
GERMAINE GREER As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. thanks to Alan Bennett -H. L. Mencken.
H. L. MENCKEN There is always a type of man who says he loves his fellow men, and expects to make a living at it.
E. W. HOWE Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -H. L. Mencken.
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KEN BLANCHARD There is only enough time in this world for me to be me. I don't have time to be anyone else." H,L,S...
SUSIE L HILL You hunt... Your fellow creatures?" I ask, still in disbelief.
"Of course. A hunt is onl...
M.D. ELSTER Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.
WALTER KIRN You've got to S-M-I-L-E
To be H-A-Double-P-Y
SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK No one has learned the meaning of life until he has surrendered his ego to the service of his fellow...
BERAN WOLFE No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU Man has an incurable habit of not fulfilling the prophecies of his fellow men.
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B. F. SKINNER I write because it's the only thing I love that always loves me back.
CRYSTAL WOODS My point is that one person is responsible, Always. If H-bombs exist--and they do--some man controls...
ROBERT A. HEINLEIN An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for ...
VINCENT VAN GOGH There isn't any evidence from a fit psychiatrist pronouncing any one of his fellow man or fellow pat...
APURVA GAGLANI A true man loves his enemies as much he loves his friends.
SANTOSH KALWAR Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation t...
WILLIAM ROBERTSON SMITH talab si lagi h
jo phansa h saansoen me
jisne jakda h phanso me
usse chhootne ki, tut...
VANDANA YADAV My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just ...
ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPéRY Gimme an S! A T! An O! A C! Followed by a K-H-O-L-M! What's it spell? HEAD FUCK.
- Jane
J.R. WARD The news today is just the tip of the iceberg for L & H. This is a classic story of the chicken comi...
LANNY DAVIS The Bible tells me that no greater love has a man than to lay down his life for his friends. John Ke...
MAX CLELAND They write to me as if I'm one of their friends, one of their buddies. Students write some messages ...
DON RICHARDS Pollio, who values nothing that's within, Buys books as men hunt Beavers, -- for their Skin.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other ...
THEODORE ROOSEVELT Men are like lions. We hunt.
KEVIN HART Our D-I-V-O-R-C-E becomes final today. Me and Little Joe will be going away. I love you both and thi...
TAMMY WYNETTE That's SHIT!
How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER I was a young, & had deep loves, & my heart would overflow with enthusiasm! And I mingled wi...
COMTE DE LAUTRéAMONT That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.
SAMUEL JOHNSON Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN The time comes when each one of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth,...
SIGMUND FREUD A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of hi...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER They were all like one another as halfpence are, every one fault
seeming monstrous till his fellow-...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.
CARLOS CASTANEDA Men are often mislead by their fellow-men.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants and animals as that of hi...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
MAHATMA GANDHI Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
MOHANDAS GANDHI If one loves, one loves the whole person as he or she is, and not as one might wish them to be.
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Money is just a way of keeping score.
H. L. HUNT Decide what you want, decide what you are willing to exchange for it. Establish your priorities and ...
H. L. HUNT Each is responsible for his own actions.
H. L. HUNT I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is f...
H. L. HUNT This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
H. L. HUNT I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refin...
H. L. HUNT My good fellow,” said Mesnil, stopping, “ever since the creation of the world there have been me...
JULES BARBEY D'AUREVILLY I had seven minutes permanently burned out of my memory (when the van hit). I did get one back of th...
STEPHEN KING The 'M*A*S*H' cast loves each other with unconditional love; our domestic animals love us wi...
GARY BURGHOFF War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow men.
NAPOLEON HILL The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do wit...
PRIYA ARDIS Every one fault seeming monstrous till his fellow-fault came to match it. -As You Like It. Act iii....
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Feast of Harriet Monsell of Clewer, Religious, 1883 There is a certain kind of so-called convers...
WILLIAM BARCLAY As time passed and he grew to know people better, he began to think of himself as an extraordinary m...
SHERWOOD ANDERSON As this is the first time I have had the floor, it may be well for me now to confess, that I am in t...
GERRIT SMITH Cosmo is feminist in that we believe women are just as smart and capable as men and can achieve anyt...
HELEN GURLEY BROWN Recite the Periodic Table of Teatime, in correct order, with Elemental Symbols, please.'
A-Thro...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE In nothing do men so much resemble the gods as in giving help to
their fellow creatures.
UNKNOWN Though there are some notable exceptions, by and large the persistent ranting of the Warren Commissi...
VINCENT BUGLIOSI There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Life is a paradiddle...
R-L-RR-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-RR-L-R-L-R-LL...
R-L-R-L-R-L...
ROSS R. MASON Ser Barristan loves his honor, Grand Maester Pycelle loves his office, and Littlefinger loves Little...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much...
WALTER BECKER [H]e looked like a real bruiser as he stepped from his car, his big sunglasses giving the impression...
JOHN CONNOLLY I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as...
LEO TOLSTOY Use every opportunity of humbling yourself before your fellow-men as a help to abide humble before G...
ANDREW MURRAY When he says he loves me, it only means he loves me at that particular instant. Like his promises, w...
EVA BRAUN He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.
NINA LACOUR No one likes a fellow who is all rogue, but we'll forgive him almost anything if there is warmth of ...
W. C. FIELDS He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his readi...
JOHN AUBREY He had read much, if one considers his long life; but his contemplation was much more than his readi...
ISAAC ASIMOV As someone who loves being on the field with his teammates, it's hard to hear that you're no...
BROCK OSWEILER Though I know he loves me, Tonight my heart is sad; His kiss was not so wonderful As all the dreams...
SARA TEASDALE Though I know he loves me, tonight my heart is sad; his kiss was not so wonderful as all the dreams ...
SARA TEASDALE The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.
HERBERT PROCHNOW I have the utmost respect for the different faiths professed by my fellow men.
LEVERETT SALTONSTALL To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just a...
BARONESS EMMUSKA ORCZY To love, for us men, is to clasp one woman with our arms, feeling that she lives and breathes just a...
BARONESS ORCZY When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to live he begins to under...
NORVIN MCGRANAHAN When a man begins to understand himself he begins to live. When he begins to
live he begins to under...
NORVIN MCGRANAHAN It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their ...
MAHATMA GANDHI It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by the humiliation of their f...
MAHATMA GANDHI There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
BRENDAN BEHAN Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfor...
ALBERT EINSTEIN The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfor...
ALBERT EINSTEIN I am quite sure that a little man who braves ridicule to improve the lot of his fellow men, and is t...
PRESTON STURGES The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he ...
SIGMUND FREUD Just as I could tell you about my first Andre Norton novel or my first L'Engle or my first Asimo...
PAMELA DEAN What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil, famine, stripes, im...
THOMAS JEFFERSON God really loves me. God really loves me.
LUCY PIZARRO If there is any God, there is only one way to please him, and that is by a conscientious discharge o...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL
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H. L. HUNT Each is responsible for his own actions.
H. L. HUNT I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is f...
H. L. HUNT This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.
H. L. HUNT I didn't go to high school, and I didn't go to grade school either. Education, I think, is for refin...
H. L. HUNT There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose ...
WILLIAM H. HUNT When language was not transcendental enough to complete the meaning of a revelation, symbols were re...
WILLIAM H. HUNT The ability to accept responsibility is the measure of the man.
ROY L. HUNT Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
H. L. MENCKEN A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. MENCKEN There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. MENCKEN For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. MENCKEN The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. MENCKEN A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
H. L. MENCKEN A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
H. L. MENCKEN Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin sl...
H. L. MENCKEN Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. MENCKEN On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
H. L. MENCKEN The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation...
H. L. MENCKEN Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The cap...
H. L. WAYLAND Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-hor...
H. L. MENCKEN A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
H. L. MENCKEN One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly ...
H. L. MENCKEN I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to ...
H. L. MENCKEN Time stays, we go.
H. L. MENCKEN A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
H. L. MENCKEN The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom...
H. L. MENCKEN Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
H. L. MENCKEN A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who wi...
H. L. MENCKEN All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will b...
H. L. MENCKEN The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surm...
H. L. MENCKEN The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are wo...
H. L. MENCKEN There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
H. L. MENCKEN There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as ...
H. L. MENCKEN War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adr...
H. L. MENCKEN To value riches is not to be covetous. They are the gift of God, and, like every gift of his, good i...
H. L. WAYLAND Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had an...
H. L. MENCKEN Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
H. L. MENCKEN To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
H. L. MENCKEN I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys...
H. L. MENCKEN I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. MENCKEN If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
H. L. MENCKEN Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's ...
H. L. MENCKEN The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led t...
H. L. MENCKEN We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense that we respect his theory that ...
H. L. MENCKEN It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
H. L. MENCKEN Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party...
H. L. MENCKEN We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
H. L. MENCKEN No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a c...
H. L. MENCKEN School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of du...
H. L. MENCKEN Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
H. L. MENCKEN The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all: it is simply to reduce as many in...
H. L. MENCKEN The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the ...
H. L. MENCKEN It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
H. L. MENCKEN Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
H. L. MENCKEN So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice s...
H. L. MENCKEN One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will...
H. L. MENCKEN The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
H. L. MENCKEN Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her hea...
H. L. MENCKEN A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regar...
H. L. MENCKEN Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, th...
H. L. MENCKEN Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. MENCKEN Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
H. L. MENCKEN Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
H. L. MENCKEN It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards ce...
H. L. MENCKEN To the best of my knowledge and belief, the average American newspaper, even of the so-called better...
H. L. MENCKEN The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. MENCKEN Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.
H. L. MENCKEN The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act...
H. L. MENCKEN Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99% of them are ...
H. L. MENCKEN Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he...
H. L. MENCKEN The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is t...
H. L. MENCKEN Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in l...
H. L. MENCKEN A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean...
H. L. MENCKEN Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usuall...
H. L. MENCKEN There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
H. L. MENCKEN An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it is a...
H. L. MENCKEN Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid f...
H. L. MENCKEN A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendura...
H. L. MENCKEN Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
H. L. MENCKEN Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is...
H. L. MENCKEN I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upo...
H. L. MENCKEN There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hou...
H. L. MENCKEN Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that th...
H. L. MENCKEN One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly m...
H. L. MENCKEN A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
H. L. MENCKEN On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
H. L. MENCKEN The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery ...
H. L. MENCKEN Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. MENCKEN What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
H. L. MENCKEN The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. MENCKEN Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H. L. MENCKEN Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
H. L. MENCKEN Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
H. L. MENCKEN If I had my way, no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust under the United Sta...
H. L. MENCKEN It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite eas...
H. L. MENCKEN Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their ...
H. L. MENCKEN The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
H. L. MENCKEN Democracy is the theory that the common people know what They want, and deserve to get it good and h...
H. L. MENCKEN Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.
H. L. MENCKEN The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest...
H. L. MENCKEN The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
H. L. MENCKEN Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. W...
H. L. MENCKEN It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as ha...
H. L. MENCKEN Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
H. L. MENCKEN A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H. L. MENCKEN Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. MENCKEN As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
H. L. MENCKEN Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and mis...
H. L. MENCKEN Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. MENCKEN The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not s...
H. L. MENCKEN Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
H. L. MENCKEN Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.
H. L. MENCKEN The evidence of the emotions, save in cases where it has strong objective support, is really no evid...
H. L. MENCKEN Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, a...
H. L. MENCKEN The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the cre...
H. L. MENCKEN The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be...
H. L. MENCKEN God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only san...
H. L. MENCKEN The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craf...
H. L. MENCKEN Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.
H. L. MENCKEN The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the ...
H. L. MENCKEN JUDGE, n: A law student who marks his own papers.
H. L. MENCKEN Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. MENCKEN The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours....
H. L. MENCKEN Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Fathe...
H. L. MENCKEN Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. MENCKEN The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
H. L. MENCKEN Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not...
H. L. MENCKEN Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
H. L. MENCKEN The Belief that man is outfitted with an immortal soul, differing altogether from the engines which ...
H. L. MENCKEN Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H. L. MENCKEN A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.
H. L. MENCKEN No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
H. L. MENCKEN The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certaint...
H. L. MENCKEN It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
H. L. MENCKEN When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
H. L. MENCKEN A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. MENCKEN The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
H. L. MENCKEN The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
H. L. MENCKEN Imagine the Creator as a stand up comedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.
H. L. MENCKEN It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though sh...
H. L. MENCKEN After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. MENCKEN Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes...
H. L. MENCKEN I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.
H. L. MENCKEN The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spend...
H. L. MENCKEN Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
H. L. MENCKEN Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
H. L. MENCKEN Life is a dead-end street.
H. L. MENCKEN It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though sh...
H. L. MENCKEN It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound c...
H. L. MENCKEN The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act...
H. L. MENCKEN No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. MENCKEN The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essential...
H. L. MENCKEN The more a man dreams, the less he believes.
H. L. MENCKEN On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.
H. L. MENCKEN Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he former...
H. L. MENCKEN The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the...
H. L. MENCKEN Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom nec...
H. L. MENCKEN Oratory is the art of making deep noises form the chest sound like important massages from the brain...
H. L. PHILLIPS How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a w...
H. L. MENCKEN The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. MENCKEN Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
H. L. MENCKEN The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundre...
H. L. MENCKEN Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
H. L. MENCKEN The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other a...
H. L. MENCKEN Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. MENCKEN To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for idea...
H. L. MENCKEN The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another...
H. L. MENCKEN I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. MENCKEN It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H. L. MENCKEN Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
H. L. MENCKEN On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at la...
H. L. MENCKEN Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. MENCKEN In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. MENCKEN The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief ...
H. L. MENCKEN It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common hones...
H. L. MENCKEN Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. MENCKEN In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice t...
H. L. MENCKEN The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led t...
H. L. MENCKEN It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sou...
H. L. MENCKEN Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
H. L. MENCKEN An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will a...
H. L. MENCKEN Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of...
H. L. MENCKEN Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what...
H. L. MENCKEN Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven...
H. L. MENCKEN Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. MENCKEN No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed age...
H. L. MENCKEN The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexpl...
H. L. MENCKEN No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice...
H. L. MENCKEN I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of peop...
H. L. MENCKEN The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regar...
H. L. MENCKEN Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H. L. MENCKEN I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
H. L. MENCKEN If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries fo...
H. L. MENCKEN It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get ...
H. L. MENCKEN Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. MENCKEN Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom nec...
H. L. MENCKEN For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our f...
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