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High Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved…
- This passion, so unordered and yet so potent, explains the capacity for teaching that one frequently observes in scientific men of high attainments in their…
- It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they penetrate to every…
- Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.
- The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.
- High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.
- A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit…
More High Quotes
- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight,… — Hank Azaria
- That's a problem. I mean, like any sort of growing startup organization, we are sort of overwhelmed by our growth. And that… — Julian Assange
- The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can… — Chinua Achebe
- I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good… — Diane Ackerman
- Love is the best school, but the tuition is high and the homework can be painful. — Diane Ackerman
- Just advertising departments with legs and high heels. — Richard Avedon
- If you look at the themes that he struck from the minute he started running for president through today, there is a… — David Axelrod
- I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters… — Dan Aykroyd
- My father is an actor, so he brought me into his agency when I was young. It wasn't something I wanted to… — Jensen Ackles