"No one hates his job so heartily as…" — H. L. Mencken
"No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer."
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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 Farmer Quotes
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one of 277 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'm a farmer now, and it's fantastic. My goal is to be totally self-sufficient and grow everything that I eat.…
— Roseanne Barr
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If the rain spoils our picnic, but saves a farmer's crop, who are we to say it shouldn't rain?
— Tom Barrett
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights…
— Saint Basil
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I always wanted to be a farmer. There is a tradition of that in my family.
— Bjork
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In Vegas, you have an audience you can't find anywhere else. It's from all over the country. You play Seattle,…
— Lewis Black
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My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small…
— Anthony Bourdain
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When the farmer can sell directly to the consumer, it is a more active process. There's more contact. The consumer…
— Jerry Brown
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Growing up in Georgia, my dad was a farmer and we worked in agriculture, so we were always looking up…
— Luke Bryan
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There are only three things that can kill a farmer: lightning, rolling over in a tractor, and old age.
— Bill Bryson
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Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin,…
— Will Carleton
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Well, you know, I had been a peanut farmer. I had - you know who was the first president -…
— Jimmy Carter
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The man who sows wrong thoughts and deeds and prays that God will bless him is in the position of…
— James Allen
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