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 think everybody can relate to loving somebody and them bringing out a wild side in you.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Think
  • Loving
  • WIld

• 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
  • Breakfast
  • Drink
  • 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

• I love singing, but I feel very naked and very vulnerable when I'm singing sometimes. With acting, I always think that it doesn't matter what you are as long as you're truthful in that moment. But with singing, you always have to hit the note. It's not like you can just go, 'Oh, it doesn't really matter what note you sing!'

  

  Jake Epstein
  • Long
  • Singing

• Music is more difficult - try naming a political band. The Dead Kennedys. The Dead Kennedys are political, but they are more funny than they are political.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • Music
  • Political
  • Funny

• I once had to dispense with a literary agent because she drank too much. She was very surprised but I pointed out to her, quite logically I thought, that one of us had to be sober and it certainly wan't going to be me.

  

  Jeffrey Bernard
  • She

• The problem is I am both a procrastinator and a power junkie, so I am very frustrating to work with.

  

  Alton Brown
  • Work
  • Power

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

  

  H. L. Mencken