The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might… — Hilaire Belloc Copy Share Image
Even a superstitious man has certain inalienable rights: the right to harbor and indulge his imbecilities, provided only that he does not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Just slap something on it when you see a blank canvas staring at you with a sort of imbecility. — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
Some immemorial imbecilities have been added deliberately, on the ground that it is just as interesting to note how foolish men have… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
History is full, down to this day, of the imbecility of kings and governors. They are a class of persons much to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For some reason a nation feels as shy about admitting that it ever went forth to war for the sake of more… — Rebecca West Copy Share Image
Piety is the only proper and adequate relief of decaying man. He that grows old without religions hopes, as he declines into… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Just dash something down if you see a blank canvas staring at you with a certain imbecility. You do not know how… — Vincent Van Gogh Copy Share Image
If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
Alas for America as I must so often say, the ungirt, the diffuse, the profuse, procumbent, one wide ground juniper, out of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries:… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What we want is not mainly to colonize Nebraska with free men, but to colonize Massachusetts with free men-to be free ourselves.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Nothing betrays imbecility so much as the being insensible of it. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
The youth who follows his appetites too soon seizes the cup, before it has received its best ingredients, and by anticipating his… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
Gossip is always a personal confession either of malice or imbecility, and the young should not only shun it, but by the… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
“It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not… — H.L. Mencken Copy Share Image
