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Often Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.
- Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one…
- Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the…
- 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…
- I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be…
- What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of…
- Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings…
- The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow…
- The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there…
- It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof…
- Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
More Often Quotes
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- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- I started out in life as a poet; I was only writing poetry all through my 20s. It wasn't until I was… — Paul Auster
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their… — Karen Armstrong
- We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;… — Karen Armstrong
- Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslims in the near east, western people have… — Karen Armstrong
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion… — Karen Armstrong
- When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I… — J. J. Abrams
- Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that… — Karen Armstrong
- Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. — Arthur Ashe
- Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior. — Julian Assange