"We suffer most when the White House busts…" — H. L. Mencken
"We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas."
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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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Now let's move on to the subject of how a real man treats his wife. A real man doesn't slap…
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The picture placed the busts between Adds to the thought much strength; Wisdom and Wit are little seen, But Folly…
— Unknown Author
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I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history
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I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes…
— David Crosby
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Here is what I'm trying to tell you: Adult isn't a noun, it's a verb. It's the act of making correctly those…
— Kelly Williams Brown
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I am fed up with a system which busts the pot smoker and lets the big dope racketeer go free.
— George McGovern
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... every available inch of his face busts into a smile - whoa. Has he blown into our school on…
— Jandy Nelson
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One of the heavy marble busts that lined the higher shelves had slid free and was falling toward her; she…
— Cassandra Clare
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If the financial system has a defect, it is that it reflects and magnifies what we human beings are like.…
— Niall Ferguson
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What we need to understand is, one, that there are market failures; and two, that there are things like asset…
— Nouriel Roubini
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I actually have several busts of Ronald Reagan that have been presented to me.
— Mitt Romney
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The true measure of a man is not in his intellect, his brawn, etc. It's in how long he can…
— Isaiah Harden (Me)
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