H. L. Mencken Quotes

Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

H. L. Mencken

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• The real war will never get in the books.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Real
  • War
  • Never

• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
  • True
  • Mankind

• You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • You
  • Mistakes

• One person I've always wanted to work with who would be an amazing guest star would be James Earl Jones.

  

  Nancy McKeon
  • Work
  • Amazing
  • Star

• A biblical false prophet was a servant of the devil attempting to lead people away from the truth.

  

  Walter Martin
  • People
  • Truth
  • Devil

• Through teaching myself how to be happy and get through things, I hope I can also do that for other people.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • People
  • Happy
  • Hope

• Whenever I am asked about my personal relationships, I politely reply, 'No comments.'

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Relationships
  • Personal
  • No comments

• The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • You
  • Need
  • Sympathy

• I had no interest in high school besides art.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • School
  • Art
  • High

• I find Denver's hipster scene to be fully unique.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Unique
  • Find
  • Hipster

• There is Twitter outrage at everything. Be it a pair of trousers or a short skirt, somebody, somewhere, will not like it.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Like
  • Short
  • Twitter

• I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

  

  Barry Gibb Bee Gees
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Songs

• The number one thing I look for is personality. For me, the personality of someone makes them more and more attractive over time ... and for those with bad personalities, less and less attractive. I look for honesty, intelligence, kindness, and a good work ethic, to name a few.

  

  Manika
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Knowledge
  • Human
  • Form

• I oppose a constitutional amendment against gay marriage.

  

  Ed Case
  • Marriage
  • Gay
  • Amendment

• When I'm not acting, I'm writing, building an inventory of scripts. Even if they sit on the shelf, I just keep stacking them up.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Acting

• I think that, in the end, the military behavior and intelligence services are not very different from each other. It's an attitude of hunters; they're observing the prey.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Different
  • Military
  • Attitude

• I think masculinity is bravado against the mystery of the universe of women. It's just a fear of not knowing what women have that's so powerful. It's this shield they put up to try to get closer.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Up
  • Women
  • Fear

• I'm very sorry to Mr. Gabas, to whom I apologised in person. Very sorry for letting my Davis Cup teammates down and for letting my country down. I apologise to all the tennis fans, to my supporters, and my sponsors. I feel ashamed of my unprofessional behaviour and will accept any consequences as a result of my action.

  

  Denis Shapovalov
  • Country
  • Action
  • Sorry

• I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Spirit
  • Compassionate
  • Presume

• Climate change, demographics, water, food, energy, global health, women's empowerment - these issues are all intertwined. We cannot look at one strand in isolation. Instead, we must examine how these strands are woven together.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Women
  • Together
  • Energy

• I grew up with low self-esteem. I didn't think I was very pretty. I had glasses, red hair and was generally quite a spod.

  

  Mark Gatiss
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Hair

• Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.

  

  H. L. Mencken