"Man is always looking for someone to boast……" — H. L. Mencken
"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."
—
H. L. Mencken
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
-
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
-
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
-
People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
-
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
-
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
-
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
-
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
-
To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
-
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
-
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
-
Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
See all 647 quotes by H. L. Mencken »
More Always Looking Quotes
This quote is filed under Always Looking Quotes,
one of 268 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
— Saul Bellow
-
A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make…
— Orlando Bloom
-
It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
— W. E. B. Du Bois
-
As filmmakers, we're constantly always looking for something to bring the audience deeper into the reality of the story we're…
— Jeff Bridges
-
Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up…
— Luke Bryan
-
I was always willing to take a great deal of the burden of getting along in life on my own…
— Raquel Welch
-
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking…
— Jean Paul
-
We are always looking to the future; the present does not satisfy us. Our ideal, whatever it may be, lies…
— Ezra Hall Gillett
-
As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell…
— Pema Chodron
-
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see,…
— Norman Rockwell
-
Sometimes I'm not even satisfied when I got 6 points and 22 rebounds, because I'm always looking to do more.
— Dennis Rodman
-
I'm just always looking forwards. I spend very little time, looking backwards.
— Gary Vaynerchuk
See all 268 Always Looking Quotes »