H. L. Mencken Quotes

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

H. L. Mencken

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• My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • My Life

• Hosting is a thankless job.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Job
  • Hosting
  • Thankless

• I'm a world class Beat Boxer; you should hear the noises I can make with my mouth.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • World
  • Class
  • Mouth

• When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.

  

  Faran Tahir
  • World
  • Good
  • Real

• I first encountered Bradbury's writing when I was pretty young. He's a great bridge author between young-adult fiction and literature.

  

  Sam Weller
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Pretty

• Keep your head up and be patient.

  

  AJ McLean
  • Up
  • Head
  • Patient

• I must have a drink of breakfast.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Drink
  • Breakfast
  • Must

• Every blossom I see reminds me of you

  

  Eddie Cantor

• But for most practical purposes Tarbean had two pieces: Waterside and Hillside. Waterside is where people are poor. That makes them beggars, thieves, and whores. Hillside is where people are rich. That makes them solicitors, politicians, and courtesans.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People

• Swimming upon water teaches men how birds do upon the air.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Men
  • Water
  • Air

• The Confederacy was so entwined with the idea of preserving slavery that the flag, even today, can evoke racial polarization...

  

  Victor Davis Hanson
  • Today
  • Slavery

• How fortunate we didn't have these animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably not have been granted a licence, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been realised.

  

  Alexander Fleming
  • Animal

• I definitely didn't wanna be a one-dimensional artist that you can just put into one box. Because, to me, we're all masters of certain energies, and we all create different colours.

  

  Labrinth LSD
  • Different

• By the time I was a teenager, I weighed 400 pounds.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Time
  • Teenager

• But I didn't know much about directing a movie.

  

  Jason Alexander
  • Movie

• New Yorkers aren't that friendly, but they're still pretty friendly, and they're hardworking, passionate people.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • People
  • Pretty

• Well, I mean, if a joke or humor is bawdy, it's got to be funny enough to warrant it. You can't just have it bawdy or dirty just for the sake of being that - it's got to be funny.

  

  Betty White
  • Funny
  • Dirty

• The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

  

  Bob Barr
  • Power
  • Growing
  • Encouraging

• I've always gone into the studio with a very clear understanding of a song, of the words or, if it's an instrumental piece, of the melodies, and that never changes.

  

  Jenny Scheinman
  • Song
  • Words
  • Understanding

• From the physical point of view, a man is nothing more than a system of cells, or from the mental point of view, than a system of representations; in either case, he differs only in degree from animals.

  

  Emile Durkheim

• When you're doing a pilot, you're doing it in this bubble that almost works against the creative impulse. You don't have time to get to know the actors first, and you have three writers, as opposed to a room full of writers.

  

  Josh Gad
  • Actors
  • Creative
  • Impulse

• I always had a lot of confidence in my ability to gauge a situation and people and try to understand them and what they were saying and what their context was.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • People
  • Confidence

• I am the Democratic Party's absolutely worst nightmare. Why is that? Well, you see, I am a black conservative Republican running against one of the most vulnerable Democrats in America in 2016.

  

  Darryl Glenn
  • Why
  • America
  • Black

• The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible.

  

  H. L. Mencken