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After Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
- I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.
- It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
- It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator…
- After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?
- No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.
- The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads; it has been furthered by gay fellows who heaved dead cats into sanctuaries…
- A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit…
- It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New…
- Religion, after all, is nothing but an hypothesis framed to account for what is evidentially unaccounted for.
- This combat between proletariat and plutocracy is, after all, itself a civil war. Two inferiorities struggle for the privilege of polluting the world.
- The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
- The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow…
- If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at…
- Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
- A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
- Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
- After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
- A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
More After Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time. — Arthur Ashe
- Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night. — Isaac Asimov
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of… — Chinua Achebe
- A word after a word after a word is power. — Margaret Atwood
- Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences… — Margaret Atwood