What did H. L. Mencken mean by: All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow. - H. L. Mencken Copy
+ There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.” Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Drinking, Honest, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Dull, Sex, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Wisdom, Wise, Women, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Honor, Lying, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Best Teacher, Children, Teacher, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ I’ve made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Dark, Drinking, Food, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor’s children devoured by wolves. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Children, Sorry, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Fight, Sex, 0 - H. L. Mencken
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. - Jean Rostand Biologist · France
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots. - William Makepeace Thackeray Author · India
True liberty can exist only when justice is equally administered to all - 1st Earl of Mansfield Lawyer · Scotland
With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one. - William of Ockham Philosopher · England
