"On some great and glorious day the plain……" — H. L. Mencken
"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron."
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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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Make great account of your precious trials, both interior and exterior; it is thus that the garden of Jesus is…
— Paul of the Cross
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The poet alone knows astronomy, chemistry, vegetation, and animation, for he does not stop at these facts, but employs them…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I would rather be adorned by beauty of character than jewels. Jewels are the gift of fortune, while character comes…
— Plautus
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She 's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see…
— John M. Tobin, Jr.
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In naked beauty most adorned.
— John Milton
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In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected... piecemeal, superficially…
— Michael Fullan
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A wonder then it must needs be,-that there should be any Man found so stupid and forsaken of reason as…
— John Ray
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Who seems most hideous when adorned the most.
— Ludovico Ariosto
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Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.
— St. Jerome
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I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained…
— Ciaran Carson
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Saints and mystics throughout history have adorned their realisations with different names and given them different faces and interpretations, but…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though…
— Johann Arndt
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