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Many Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- The harsh, useful things of the world, from pulling teeth to digging potatoes, are best done by men who are as starkly sober as so…
- [The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken…
- Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
- There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hours are simply animals waiting docilely for death.…
- The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases,…
- After all, why be good? How many will actually believe it of us?
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
- It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New…
- [C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals…
- During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the…
- 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…
- Penetrating so many secrets, we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless, calmly licking its chops
- Liberals have many tails and chase them all.
- 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…
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
- I know a good many men of great learning-that is, men born with an extraordinary eagerness and capacity to acquire knowledge. One and all, they…
More Many Quotes
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- He who hath many friends hath none. — Aristotle
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Second, we have to make the most of the strengths we have, the amenities that many of our competitors cannot replicate. But… — Gerard Arpey
- The power of one, if fearless and focused, is formidable, but the power of many working together is better. — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo
- Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind… — Mary Kay Ash
- So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the… — Mary Kay Ash
- In my role as Wikileaks editor, I've been involved in fighting off many legal attacks. To do that, and keep our sources… — Julian Assange
- The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely… — Rowan Atkinson
- But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness… — Rowan Atkinson
- I'm not a collector. I don't like the toy cupboard syndrome that causes so many good cars to evaporate. — Rowan Atkinson