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Lost Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
- Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has…
- The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and effectiveness. His habit…
- The American people, North and South, went into the [Civil] war as citizens of their respective states, they came out as subjects ... what they…
- The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in…
- In the long run all battles are lost, and so are all wars.
- Nothing is so abject and pathetic as a politician who has lost his job, save only a retired stud-horse.
- No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me…
- No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever…
More Lost Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly… — Isaac Asimov
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself.… — David Attenborough
- I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very… — Margaret Atwood
- Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from… — Saint Augustine
- India saw from the beginning, and, even in her ages of reason and her age of increasing ignorance, she never lost hold… — Sri Aurobindo
- Man is lost and is wandering in a jungle where real values have no meaning. Real values can have meaning to man… — Sai Baba
- There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying. — Francis Bacon
- I think a lot of people have lost respect for the individual, you know, the individual, the person who doesn't conform. — Erykah Badu
- Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get… — Russell Baker