H. L. Mencken Quotes

All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

H. L. Mencken

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• You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Future
  • Know
  • Wife

• After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Win
  • Celebrate
  • Ice

• Golf without bunkers and hazards would be tame and monotonous. So would life.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Life
  • Golf
  • Without

• Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.

  

  Harald zur Hausen
  • World
  • Family
  • War

• I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Think
  • Cry
  • Watch

• The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Important
  • Women
  • Confidence

• Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Years

• If you want to stay fit, surround yourself with a couple of chicks who are fired up, so that the one day you're not, you can feed off their energy.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • Up
  • Energy
  • Day

• I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I love shopping in New York just because you walk around and find a little store you've never saw before, and you're like, 'Oh what's that? This is my new favorite place.' I love that about New York.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Like
  • Place
  • Shopping

• They don't observe the Sabbath, they don't observe the Torah, they don't pray, they don't put on phylacteries every day. Is it any wonder that they're killed? It's no wonder. May the Almighty have mercy on them and bring them back to religion.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • May
  • Wonder
  • Mercy

• I only regret that I have but one shirt to give for my country.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Country
  • Regret

• I raised my arms as if in prayer and heard the mutter of response behind me. Then I scattered the dried grains, red and brown and black, and studied the patterns they formed on the stone ledge before Sibbos. This is not such a mystic thing. You see what it is sensible to see, or else you interpret what you see so that the meaning comes out as you want it.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Black
  • Prayer
  • Red

• τόπος μηδένα φυσιούτω· τὸ γὰρ ὅλον ἐστὶν πίστις καὶ ἀγάπη, ὧν οὐδὲν προκέκριται.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch

• I love to travel, but I hate to arrive.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Travel

• You have to feel more involved than just writing out a cheque. Charity is almost the wrong word - I think people are beginning to feel more responsible for the world.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • People
  • World
  • Writing

• When some people get parts, they feel they can now relax, but for me it was always the opposite. Sometimes before I do a movie or before I act out a scene, I may not sleep well the night before. If I don't know what the scene is about, I might get all worked up.

  

  Benicio Del Toro
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

  

  Andres Serrano
  • Real
  • Church
  • Catholic

• No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Man
  • Wise
  • Glory

• A lot of energy and excitement - that's what a lot of my shows are, energy and excitement.

  

  ASAP Rocky
  • Energy
  • Shows
  • Excitement

• How would you describe the worst run you ever had? Precious!

  

  Hal Higdon
  • Worst
  • Run

• All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.

  

  H. L. Mencken