H. L. Mencken Quotes

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

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• When you are intelligent and beautiful you face a lot of problems. If you are beautiful and stupid then it's easy.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beautiful
  • Stupid
  • Problems

• I read Popular Mechanics, Popular Science, Reader's Digest... I read some responsible journalism, and from that, I form my own opinions. I also happen to be intelligent, and I question everything.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Science
  • Question
  • Popular

• I never got hurt when I was in Morocco doing all the horse riding and my own stunts. But on the last day on the last shot I slid off my horse and landed on my bottom. I did not get hurt but it was very embarrassing.

  

  Oded Fehr
  • Day
  • Hurt
  • Horse

• I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • People
  • Respect
  • Religious

• I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Sea
  • Horse
  • Inside

• The director took my face in his hands and asked me to show him my teeth, as with a horse. This happened on a Wednesday, and by the following Monday I was shooting.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Hands
  • Horse
  • Monday

• Time has a way of demonstrating that the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

  

  Yevgeny Yevtushenko
  • Time
  • Intelligent
  • Stubborn

• My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • School
  • Love

• I am not too intelligent.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Intelligent

• I was aware that everybody said I was going to be a vast mega-flop, and that William Hague was just oh-so intelligent, and oh such a great parliamentarian, and therefore so different from me! So I thought, I must deprive them of the satisfaction of proving themselves right.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Great
  • Different
  • Thought

• The good news is that economists are intelligent, engaging and often charming folks. The bad news is their work is often of little use to investors.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Work
  • Bad

• They say military have the so-called 'secret intelligence' - this amount of intelligence must be very secret, since I've never seen any intelligent military person, nor I have seen any sense in the bloody stupid wars.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Military
  • Stupid
  • Intelligent

• I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

  

  Finn Jones
  • Great
  • Think
  • Intelligent

• I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

  

  Jack Klugman
  • Career
  • Day
  • Broken

• India has progressed to a stage where a divorcee status hardly matters. What matters is that you raise a positive, independent, well-behaved and intelligent child.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Positive
  • Child
  • Independent

• I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.

  

  Dana Delany
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.

  

  Madeleine Peyroux
  • People
  • Friends
  • Intelligent

• You don't have to be a man to fight for freedom. All you have to do is to be an intelligent human being.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Fight

• Elephants love to play around. They are very intelligent animals. They have a strong bond, at times stretching to several decades, with their mahouts.

  

  Mark Shand
  • Strong
  • Intelligent

• I have walked into several pubs, and guys in there have said to me, 'My God, you are the girl off the dancing horse.' They have got no idea about dressage, and they said, 'I can't work out whether you make the horse do that or the horse does it itself - we just couldn't tell - but it brought tears to our eyes.'

  

  Charlotte Dujardin
  • Work
  • God
  • Girl

• When you give success to stupid people, it makes them more stupid sometimes and not more intelligent.

  

  Arsene Wenger
  • Success
  • Intelligent
  • Stupid People

• When I'm writing, I look like a fool because the parts are moving through me and I'm crying and laughing and making faces.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Writing
  • Fool
  • Laughing

• In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Why
  • Reality
  • Running

• One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Intelligent
  • Horse