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Years Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research.
- It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the one common denominator…
- The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine…
- A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband.
- I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then I was in…
- A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
- It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for…
- It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New…
- 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…
- Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None…
- During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the…
- The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
- Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
- Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year…
- No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me…
More Years Quotes
- I wanted to get back to my style of 20 years ago after a long period of exploring horror and fantasy themes. — Dario Argento
- Tourism is a crucial industry that could employ millions of Filipinos, skilled and unskilled alike, cross those 7,107 islands of the Philippines.… — Benigno Aquino III
- Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or… — Richard Armour
- I've been playing rock and roll since I was 16 years old, and now I have a 16-year-old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put… — Lance Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong
- Obviously, I come from one background, and the people that design fitness equipment have been doing it for years and years, and… — Lance Armstrong
- Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next… — Neil Armstrong
- I learned a lot in those first years in Miami, while struggling just for survival, by observing my father's fortitude. — Desi Arnaz