Failing Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Failing Failure Learning Men Teach Wit
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
A man may fail many times. But he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything. — Wilson Greatbatch Copy Share Image
A man can fail, but he isn't a failure until he blames someone else. — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something. — James Dyson Copy Share Image
A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Failure is a man's inability to reach his goals in life, whatever they may be — Og Mandino Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Many individuals spend a considerable portion of their lifetimes in terror of one imagined catastrophe or another. The classic is that your immortal soul… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail? — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several, he will fail to achieve distinction in any. — Plato Copy Share Image
I would warn against holsters with devices for quick-draw. Devices always fail when you need them most. — William Powell Copy Share Image
You can’t bake a cake without getting the kitchen messy. Halfway through surgery it looks like there’s been a murder in the operating room.… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves… — Edvard Munch Copy Share Image
Either dragons should exist completely or fail to exist at all, he felt. A dragon only half-existing was worse than the extremes. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I wake up every morning fearing I am going to fail. But I love a challenge, big or small. There's so much I want… — Michelle Mone Copy Share Image