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Surely Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with…
- It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more nearly his own…
- The fact that a human brain of high amperage, otherwise highly efficient, may have a hole in it is surely not a secret.
- It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork…
- All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it…
More Surely Quotes
- Surely, if knowledge is valuable, it can never be good policy in a country far wealthier than Tuscany, to allow a genius… — Charles Babbage
- It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is… — Francis Bacon
- Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours. — James A. Baldwin
- Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. — John Adams
- I don't know much about football. I know what a goal is, which is surely the main thing about football. — Victoria Beckham
- What does it mean to love someone with all your heart? It means to love with all your emotional feelings and with… — Ezra Taft Benson
- All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the… — Annie Besant
- If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we… — Annie Besant
- A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is… — Augustine Birrell
- What matters in literature in the end is surely the idiosyncratic, the individual, the flavor or the color of a particular human… — Harold Bloom
- Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the… — Omar N. Bradley
- I cannot express it: but surely you and everybody have a notion that there is, or should be, an existence of yours… — Emily Bronte