Annoying Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Annoying Improving Pretense Saving Scoundrels
A fault which humbles a person is of more use to him or her than a good action which puffs him or her up. — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
The possibility of remedying imprudent actions is commonly an inducement to commit them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A readiness to excuse some faults, shows a disposition to commit others. — Norm MacDonald Copy Share Image
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. — W. H. Murray Copy Share Image
“Maintaining one’s vigilance against biases is a chore—but the chance to avoid a costly mistake is sometimes worth the effort.” — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
One who is committed finds way when obstacle in endeavour tries to distract him & one who is not honest to his endeavour will… — DrAnil Kr Sinha Copy Share Image
Habit creates the appearance of justice; progress has no greater enemy than habit. — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse. — Anonymous 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
Why couldn't Jesus command us to obsess over everything, to try to control and manipulate people, to try not to breathe at all, or… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
The trouble is. . .that everybody sneers at restrictions and demands freedom, till something annoying happens; then they demand angrily what has become of… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
At Epcot Center the Disney corporation has focused its attention on two things greatly in need of Disneyfication: the tedious future and the annoying… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
The book it reminded me of most is Henry Miller’s The Books in My Life. Like Miller, Shields manages to convey his affection for… — Andre Alexis Copy Share Image
When you're standing around for an hour doing stand up it's no big deal but when you're standing around watching a show for an… — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
Belief is a good thing in principle, but an annoying thing in human beings. — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Shut the fuck up ur so annoying and you think your the shit lmao sit the fuck down — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Die, enemies of Ra!" Sekhemet yelled. "Perish in agony!" "She's almost as annoying as you," I told Horus. "Impossible," Horus said. "No one bests… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
...Be grateful for what you have to be thankful for instead of complaining about the little things that annoy you. — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
Would you want people walking up to you and pointing at your d--k? I can't believe I'm still talking about this. But I've worn… — Jon Hamm Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image