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Some Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.
- People constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but…
- 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…
- [C]lass consciousness is not one of our national diseases; we suffer, indeed, from its opposite-the delusion that class barriers are not real. That delusion reveals…
- The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed…
- If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at…
- On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be…
- All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
- I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.
- There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on…
- The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to…
- The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon…
- Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the…
More Some Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. — Aristophanes
- If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- We have some material on spying by a major government on the tech industry. Industrial espionage. — Julian Assange
- 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
- Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives. — Richard Bach
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- What annoys the hell out of me is the arrogance of some people. They don't even listen to our music, they decided… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For some young people, their first experience ever hearing punk rock music was playing the Green Bay Packers on 'Madden'. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'm not going to conform to some consumer need. — Billie Joe Armstrong