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Something 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…
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences. Absolutely…
- 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…
- A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something…
- The essence of a sound style is that it cannot be reduced to rules-that it is a living and breathing thing with something of the…
- There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character.
- Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done - a kind…
- You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.
- All successful newpapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced upon…
- We must think of human progress, not as of something going on in the race in general, but as something going on in a small…
- In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a…
- You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.
- You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
- Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable.…
- Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.
- Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.
- In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
- The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.
- 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…
- Off goes the head of the king, and tyranny gives way to freedom. The change seems abysmal. Then, bit by bit, the face of freedom…
More Something Quotes
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- I have nothing against 3-D in theory. But I've also never run to the movies because something's in 3-D. — J. J. Abrams
- Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. — J. J. Abrams
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals,… — Aristotle
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. — Richard Bach
- The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. — J. J. Abrams
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen