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
  • 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 caucus is a sort of representative meeting which sits voting and voting till they have cut out all the known men against whom much is to be said, and agreed on some unknown man against whom there is nothing known, and therefore nothing to be alleged.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Men
  • Unknown

• If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Up
  • Music
  • Communication

• A very enjoyable meditation on the curious thing called 'Zen' -not the Japanese religious tradition but rather the Western clich of Zen that is embraced in advertising, self-help books, and much more. . . . Yamada, who is both a scholar of Buddhism and a student of archery, offers refreshing insight into Western stereotypes of Japan and Japanese culture, and how these are received in Japan.

  

  Alexander Gardner
  • Tradition
  • Japan
  • Stereotype

• For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or with a guitar, you know?

  

  Dua Lipa
  • Taken

• People are talking about the Internet as though it is going to change the world. It's not going to change the world. It's not going to change the way we think, and it's not going to change the way we feel.

  

  Peter Davison
  • People
  • World

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

  

  H. L. Mencken