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Anything Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am…
- There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself.
- The scientist who yields anything to theology, however slight, is yielding to ignorance and false pretenses, and as certainly as if he granted that a…
- The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the…
- One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence. Ostensibly, their aim…
- And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in order to bring…
- It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone - that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man…
- Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to…
- Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his…
- All successful newpapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon…
- I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free…
- You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity, it can happen…
- If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they…
More Anything Quotes
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I could do… — Paul Auster
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. — Richard Bach
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen
- Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price. — Mary Kay Ash
- I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile… — Arthur Ashe