Burglars Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Burglars Ethical Honest Political Politician Politics
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I think people are distrustful of politicians and are looking for someone who is telling the truth with no hidden agenda. — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
I look for people who work to solve problems and help colleagues, I sack politicians. — Lou Gerstner Copy Share Image
This idea that you can't be an honest man and a Washington politician is a myth, a crock made up by sellouts and careerist… — Matt Taibbi Copy Share Image
Experience to a politician is like experience to a prostitute - not much to recommend them. — Charley Reese Copy Share Image
What is any political campaign save a concerted effort to turn out a set of politicians who are admittedly bad and put in a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To be honest, I find most politicians very untrustworthy. When I listen to them talking - or rather, lying - I just feel there… — Jamie Sives 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
If the watchdog doesn't bark, how do you know there's a burglar in the basement? And the press is supposed to be a watchdog. — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at… — Sam Ervin Copy Share Image
Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Modern man threw a brick through his own window in order to sell himself a burglar alarm. — Allen Carr Copy Share Image
“Kill the fears before they endorse your failures. When you attempt to stop the terrorist at the time he's at work, you are too… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
[it is] a high class kind of subversion, very high class. We're not second story burglars. We go right in the front door. — Mike Gorman Copy Share Image
Suppose . . . burglars had made entry into this . . . [library]. Picture them seated here on this floor, pouring the light… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
You have found that you were more secure before you accumulated so much. See what greed has imposed on you: You have filled your… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer… — Sam Ewing Copy Share Image
The habit of always putting off an experience until you can afford it, or until the time is right, or until you know how… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
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