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Way Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a manly way and…
- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
- A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
- The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple…
- The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more…
- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of…
- The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.
- The mistake that is made always runs the other way. Because the plain people are able to speak and understand, and even, in many cases,…
- The way to deal with superstition is not to be polite to it, but to tackle it with all arms, and so rout it, cripple…
- The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same…
- To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a…
- Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.
- There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out.
- All of the great patriots now engaged in edging and squirming their way toward the Presidency of the Republic run true to form. That is…
- So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association…
- The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.
- When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians…
- Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of…
- There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
- It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof…
- The only way to reconcile science and religion is to set up something which is not science and something that is not religion.
- 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…
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