Land of Wisdom - Quotations and sayings
Main menu
 Home
 Categories
 Authors
 Quote of the Day
 Contacts
 Site map
Advertisement
iWinkels.be snel gemakkelijk de juiste winkel of winkels vinden
 
Quotations by author » Henry Louis Mencken
American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956
Quotes: 121 - 140 of 381 Pages: First ... Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next ... Last
I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious
Uncategorized
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking
Religion
I can only imagine very stupid people looking at it (Television)
Television
I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries
Uncategorized
I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.
America and AmericansChicagoCities
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
Uncategorized
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
Uncategorized
I have little belief in human progress. The human race is incurably idiotic. It will never be happy.
Uncategorized
I have yet to meet (a socialist) who was not as gullible as a Mississippi darkey - nay, as a Mississippi white man
Uncategorized
I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men
Uncategorized
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
Uncategorized
I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
Uncategorized
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
Uncategorized
I'm against slavery simply because I dislike slaves
Uncategorized
I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors
Uncategorized
I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark
Uncategorized
Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup
Idealism
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.
Uncategorized
If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself
Uncategorized
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier - and also a good deal more foolish
Women
Quotes: 121 - 140 of 381 Pages: First ... Previous 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next ... Last
All quotations are property and copyright of their authors
© 2006-2008, Land of Wisdom