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Never Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
- When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians…
- Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the…
- War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
- I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
- Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
- There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he…
- I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures…
More Never Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The chief qualification of a mass leader has become unending infallibility; he can never admit an error. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- You can never guess or assume what anyone is going to think. — J. J. Abrams
- In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation. I passed… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- The soul never thinks without a picture. — Aristotle
- I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
- Never in my wildest dreams did I entertain the idea that I would become a fashion designer. — Giorgio Armani
- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach