H. L. Mencken Quotes

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

H. L. Mencken

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• Every man must wear out at least one pair of fools shoes.

  

  Earl Derr Biggers
  • Man
  • Shoes
  • Fools

• Middle school was probably my hardest time. I was trying to fit in for so long, until about junior year of high school when I realized that trying to fit into this one image of perfection was never going to make me happy.

  

  Maiara Walsh
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• This I know; the spirit of Man cannot be stopped.

  

  Walter Reisch
  • Man
  • Know
  • Spirit

• Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Man

• I vowed I would do everything I could to stop the Isle of Man counting towards the world championship. And it was stopped, so they love me in the Isle of Man.

  

  Barry Sheene
  • World
  • Man
  • Championship

• Suddenly I was the man who got the part that every actor in the English language was trying to get. I was really scared. I had talked the talk, and now I had to walk the walk. For three days, I couldn't answer the phone.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Trying
  • Man
  • English

• One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Man
  • Another
  • Remorse

• I'm so happy and thankful I made it a point be a stay-at-home mom.

  

  Candace Cameron Bure
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Mom

• Cain's an animal, man. Cain's a competitor. I want to spar with Cain because I know if I'm able to hang with him here in the gym, once I get out there in the cage and fight, I mean, I've already gone toe-to-toe with Cain Velasquez, you know?

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Fight

• In order to be rated as good as a good man in the field of her earnings, she must show herself better than he. She must be more steady, or more trustworthy, or more skilled, or more cheap in order to have the same chance of employment.

  

  Florence Kelley
  • Good
  • She
  • Man

• Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Great
  • Man
  • Words

• Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • God
  • Man
  • Relationship

• The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Man
  • Wise

• When you say that you are a race man, it means that you embrace the entire black community regardless of the hue, whether somebody is very light and could pass for possibly white or someone is very dark.

  

  Ed Smith
  • Man
  • Black
  • Light

• Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Happy
  • Try
  • Be Happy

• When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Mind
  • Happy
  • Habit

• After two years at UCLA, I decided to leave. I was convinced that no amount of education would help a black man get a job.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Job
  • Help
  • Man

• I'd like to think you don't stop being creative once you get happy.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Happy
  • Think
  • Stop

• There are lots of people I admire and respect, but I don't necessarily want to be like them. I'm too happy being myself.

  

  James D'arcy
  • People
  • Happy
  • Respect

• The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

  

  Marcus Tullius Cicero
  • Life

• I can see a scene in my head, and when I try to get it down in words on paper, the words are clunky; the scene is not coming across right. So frustrating. And there are days where it keeps flowing. Open the floodgates, and there it is. Pages and pages coming. Where the hell does this all come from? I don't know.

  

  George R. R. Martin
  • Words

• I remain on 'SVU' because it is an incredible opportunity.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Remain

• Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Mind
  • Freedom
  • Champagne

• No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Happy
  • Man
  • Single