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Lasts 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.
- 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…
- The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
- The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got…
- I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in…
- If the American people really tire of democracy and want to make a trial of Fascism, I shall be the last person to object. But…
- 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…
More Lasts Quotes
- 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
- Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever. — Lance Armstrong
- Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. — Isaac Asimov
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa in a… — Chinua Achebe
- Do every act of your life as if it were your last. — Marcus Aurelius
- Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. — Marcus Aurelius
- And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last. — Marcus Aurelius
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo