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Mere Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been…
- 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…
- A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
- It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with…
- Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would…
- Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues, and so on.…
- What chiefly distinguishes the daily press is its incurable fear of ideas, its constant effort to evade the discussion of fundamentals by translating all issues…
- It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork…
- Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of…
More Mere Quotes
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot… — Saint Augustine
- Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a… — Honore de Balzac
- The mere thought hadn't even begun to speculate about the merest possibility of crossing my mind. — Douglas Adams
- Models now need to promote themselves, think like businesswomen and diversify their careers by doing other things. Chances are very slim that… — Tyra Banks
- Twelve-piece cookware sets for ninety-nine bucks are routinely hawked on late-night TV - often by friends of mine. But with a mere… — Mario Batali
- Filibusters have proliferated because under current rules just one or two determined senators can stop the Senate from functioning. Today, the mere… — Evan Bayh
- Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness. — Joseph Addison
- Strange indeed would it be if all the space around us be empty, mere waste void, and the inhabitants of Earth the… — Annie Besant
- No doubt unity is something to be desired, to be striven for, but it cannot be willed into being by mere declarations. — Theodore Bikel
- The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone. — William J. H. Boetcker