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Nine 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…
- The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business…
- The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is not…
- At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of…
- The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of indifference or hostility…
- I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
- Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be…
- The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.
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- It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before. — Jane Austen
- In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels. — Jane Austen
- My brother is the lifelong musician; he made the choice to do that when we were very, very young kids. I remember… — Kevin Bacon
- In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person. — George Bancroft
- The Cubs are gonna shine in sixty-nine. — Ernie Banks
- Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. — Dave Barry
- The end of my addiction to fame happened at the exact moment 'Roseanne' dropped out of the top ten, in the seventh… — Roseanne Barr
- You know when you first get rich, and you, like, just buy everything that you see? I did that for several years.… — Roseanne Barr
- 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
- I find a lot of things kind of funny and I often say what's on my mind, and then get nine texts… — Kate Beckinsale
- My voice went recently, never happened before, off like a tap. I had to sit in silence for nine days, chalkboard around… — Adele