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Would Be Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States.
- 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…
- Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are…
- The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no…
- Courtroom : A place where Jesus Christ and Judas Iscariot would be equals, with the betting odds favoring Judas.
- Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel.
- College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the…
- An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves.
- Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world. Skin a chimpanzee,…
- If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
- To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
- 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…
More Would Be Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I don't want to limit myself musically. It would be really limiting if we'd neglect something we really want to do, like… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- We don't have sources who are dissidents on other sources. Should they come forward, that would be a tricky situation for us.… — Julian Assange
- If I can make programmes when I'm 95, that would be fine. But I would think I'll have had enough by then. — David Attenborough
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere hadn't changed… — David Attenborough
- There would be no Sherlock Holmes if it were not for serial publication. — Margaret Atwood
- We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for… — Margaret Atwood
- There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me… — Chinua Achebe
- If stock market experts were so expert, they would be buying stock, not selling advice. — Norman Ralph Augustine
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around… — Saint Augustine
- Let it be your constant method to look into the design of people's actions, and see what they would be at, as… — Marcus Aurelius