H. L. Mencken Quotes

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

H. L. Mencken

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• There is always pressure in football.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • Football
  • Always
  • Pressure

• When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.

  

  Captain Beefheart
  • Smart
  • Intelligence
  • Dolphin

• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

  

  Tacitus
  • Peace
  • Wilderness
  • Empire

• The heroes of 'Narcos' are the Colombian people who fought and decided to do something about the horrible narco-terrorism that took place in their country back in the '80s.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • People
  • Country
  • Heroes

• If you have passion, there is no need for excuses because your enthusiasm will trump any negative reasoning you might come up with. Enthusiasm makes excuses a nonissue.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Trump

• How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.

  

  V. S. Pritchett
  • Most
  • Guilt
  • Extraordinary

• I don't like intellectuals, or, at least, people who call themselves that way, because I am under the impression that there is always something condescending in their demeanour, and I don't like condescending people.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Intellectuals
  • Condescending
  • Demeanour

• Our way is straight and clear - the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Up
  • World
  • Home

• I am not gay; I don't have a relationship with Ricky Martin.

  

  Maluma
  • Relationship
  • Gay

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• Blackbeard is probably the most infamous pirate who ever lived. He's one of those characters for which most of your work is done before you start.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Work
  • Done
  • Start

• I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • People
  • Death
  • Dying

• Of course, when I say that human nature is gentleness, it is not 100 percent so. Every human being has that nature, but there are many people acting against their nature, being false.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Nature
  • Human Nature

• Creatively, I've always wanted to be different as it relates to my craft, and reggae, being a part of my culture, makes up a percentage of that uniqueness. The only definition I can think of to describe my style is 'OMI.'

  

  OMI
  • Up
  • Different
  • Culture

• As a child, I studied violin. My sister, who's 10 years older, was the actress in the family. I was painfully shy.

  

  J. Smith-Cameron
  • Family
  • Child
  • Sister

• Comic books are a big passion of mine.

  

  Taran Killam
  • Passion
  • Books
  • Big

• It's much easier for me to do an impression of someone real, because you and the audience begin with a baseline understanding of this person's life. And then if you subvert that in any way, it's a little comedy surprise.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Life
  • Understanding
  • Person

• Memory is not pure. Memories told are not pure memories; memories told are stories. The storyteller will change them. I've always been interested in that.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Memories

• I bought my wife Leighanne a silver BMW Z8 sports car one Christmas and tied it up with a big red bow in the driveway of our house.

  

  Brian Littrell
  • Up
  • House
  • Wife

• There is a broad range of reaction to the work, as there is a broad range of work I make.

  

  Jim Hodges
  • Work

• Annie Lee Smith was my mother's name. My father's name was George Washington Smith. I have to tell you, I got all of my attributes from them, obviously, the tangibles, the intangibles. Particularly my work ethic, my dedication.

  

  Bruce Smith
  • Work
  • Mother
  • Father

• In traditional Hindu families like ours, men provided and women were provided for. My father was a patriarch and I a pliant daughter. The neighborhood I'd grown up in was homogeneously Hindu, Bengali-speaking, and middle-class. I didn't expect myself to ever disobey or disappoint my father by setting my own goals and taking charge of my future.

  

  Bharati Mukherjee
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Father
  • Thanksgiving