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Simple Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
- Two simple principles lie at the bottom of the whole matter, and they may be precipitated into two rules. The first is that, when there…
- The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that it exists.
- For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
- Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
- For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of…
- The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
- The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to…
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- A tool is usually more simple than a machine; it is generally used with the hand, whilst a machine is frequently moved… — Charles Babbage
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover. — Michelle Bachelet
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I find that it's the simple things that remind you of family around the holidays. — Amy Adams
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. — Amelia Barr
- The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant… — Dave Barry
- Patriarchy is impotent and qualitatively unable to solve even the most simple problems in the cosmos such as picking up their own… — Roseanne Barr
- Guys are simple... women are not simple and they always assume that men must be just as complicated as they are, only… — Dave Barry
- Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple… — John Adams