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H. L. Mencken has 641 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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The grammarians are arguing.
— Horace
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Can it be, that the Greek grammarians invented their dual number for the particular benefit of twins?
— Herman Melville
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To seek in the great accumulation of the already-said the text that resembles "in advance" a later text, to ransack history in…
— Michel Foucault
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Grammatici certant et adhuc sub iudice lis est. - Grammarians dispute, and the case it still before the courts.
— Horace
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Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are…
— Herbert Simon
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Caesar is not above the grammarians.
— Tiberius
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Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.
— Remy de Gourmont
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The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do…
— H. L. Mencken
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When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians…
— Nizar Qabbani
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