"A woman wishes to mother a man simply……" — H. L. Mencken
"A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion."
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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site.
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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More Amiable Quotes
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There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give…
— Jane Austen
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People care more about being thought to have taste than about being thought either good, clever or amiable.
— Samuel Butler
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Her great merit is finding out mine; there is nothing so amiable as discernment.
— Lord Byron
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Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more…
— Joseph Addison
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She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but…
— William Shakespeare
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In fact, we will have to give up taking things for granted, even the apparently simple things. We have to…
— John Desmond Bernal
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No one is better born than another, unless they are born with better abilities and a more amiable disposition.
— Seneca the Elder
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A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be.
— Nicolas Chamfort
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Nobody knows how the stand of our knowledge about the atom would be without him. Personally, [Niels] Bohr is one…
— Albert Einstein
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I am every day more convinced that we women, if we are to be good women, feminine and amiable and…
— Queen Victoria
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If you'd be beloved, make yourself amiable. A true friend is the best possession.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such…
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