What did H. L. Mencken mean by: In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. - H. L. Mencken Copy
+ The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science that smiles in your face while it picks your pocket. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Faces, Law, Pockets, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Questions And Answers, Simple, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Democracy, Doctrine, Voting, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Believe, Common, Folly, 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
+ 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
+ There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Believe, Ideas, Stupid, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Conscience, 0 - H. L. Mencken
The time for reasoning is past; now’s the time to get steamed up and fight like mad. - Jean Genet Playwright · France
What a strange world this is when you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
I write about sex because often it feels like the most important thing in the world. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Although I sometimes pose as a fight animal, I’m really a flight animal. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Everybody loses a couple, and you either pack it up and go home or you keep on fighting. - Jeff Bridges Actor · USA