H. L. Mencken Quotes

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

H. L. Mencken

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• I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Thinking
  • Happy
  • Theatre

• After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.

  

  Manju Warrier
  • Women
  • Change
  • Marriage

• I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Women
  • Today

• It's always humbling, knowing where we came from. From being friends with the janitor in the bar and being friends with the waitress - because they were some of the only people that were listening when we finished playing - to this, we are able to appreciate every single person and every single piece of it, because we came from nothing to this.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • People
  • Friends
  • Single

• The thing about women playing boys is that we're not going to age, and we're not going to go through puberty in the middle of a long-running series.

  

  Pamela Adlon
  • Long
  • Women
  • Age

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• In 2016, makeup has become an incredible passion and hobby for men and women, but it hasn't become mainstream.

  

  Halsey
  • Men
  • Women
  • Passion

• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy

• I think one challenge is that having few women in your work environment makes you feel a little isolated and alone. I'm an extrovert; I like talking to people, and I make friends easily, but if your personality is somewhat different, I think you would struggle to connect with people.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • People
  • Work
  • Different

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Men
  • Want
  • Black

• It is such a gift to be able to write songs in general, but when you can share it with somebody, it is just such a pleasure. It is such a happy moment when you finish a song, and you are just like, 'Wow - that was great.'

  

  Valerie June
  • Great
  • Happy
  • Song

• Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Women
  • Why
  • Book

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• I've read every single fantasy novel there is. I mean, I would challenge a lot of people to read more fantasy novels than I have.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Single
  • Challenge

• The whole European Federal plan is ridiculous. We are patriotic. The single currency is an outrage. We want the Queen's head - or the King's head, if we have a king - on our own coins.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Want
  • Single
  • King

• What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.

  

  Laura Dern
  • People
  • Good
  • Different

• We live in one of the most complex ages for young, professional women.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Live
  • Women
  • Professional

• A woman of faith is blessed by faithful men in her life who hold the priesthood of God and honor this privilege: her father, bishop, husband, brothers, sons. They value her and the divine gifts given by God to His daughter. They sustain and encourage, and they understand the great mission of her life as a woman. They love her; they bless her.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• If you are prepared to make a fool of yourself for them then you usually get that back. I think that there are points where you become so close to an actor, you know them so well, almost as well or better than their spouse. You have to know them, warts and all.

  

  Adrian Lyne
  • Fool

• When I was really little, it was very clear to me that I felt like a boy, and my friends were all boys.

  

  Chaz Bono
  • Friends
  • Boy

• Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mean
  • Serious
  • Forget

• Nothing is more deadly to achievement than the belief that effort will not be rewarded, that the world is a bleak and discriminatory place in which only the predatory and the specially preferred can get ahead.

  

  George Gilder
  • World
  • Effort
  • Belief

• The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

  

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