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Day Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple…
- Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in…
- Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply throw up your…
- Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
- A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood…
- Life may not be exactly pleasant, but it is at least not dull. Heave yourself into Hell today, and you may miss, tomorrow or next…
- The other day a dog peed on me. A bad sign.
- He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.
- On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be…
- Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the…
- Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other.…
- Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day…
More Day Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong