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H. L. Mencken has 641 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever I do…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more bloody chronicle…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are…
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One thing is certain, You can't shake hands with a fist.
— David Allan Coe
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But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands…
— Payne Stewart
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You know what they do in San Francisco? Some in the gay community there, they want to get people. So if they…
— Pat Robertson
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When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.
— Oscar Wilde
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The chemist in America has in general been content with what I have called a loafer electron theory. He has imagined the…
— Robert Andrews Millikan
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The biggest danger for a politician is to shake hands with a man who is physically stronger, has been drinking, and is…
— William Proxmire
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
— Indira Gandhi
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I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go…
— Benedict Cumberbatch
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Brothers don't shake hands, brothers gotta HUG!!!
— Chris Farley
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But it's not just the ratty part of town. The upper class in San Francisco is that way. The Bohemian Grove, which…
— Richard M. Nixon
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They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a…
— Fitz-Greene Halleck
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Cruelty and fear shake hands together.
— Honore de Balzac
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