What did H. L. Mencken mean by: The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads. - H. L. Mencken Copy
+ No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Politician, Saving, Saving Money, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Poverty, Spiritual Life, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again. Explain Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024February 9, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Failure, Learn, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Making Love, Women, 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
+ I know of no existing nation that deserves to live, and I know of very few individuals. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Government, Individual, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn’t believe he is dead Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Believe, Immortality, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ The intellectual heritage of the race belongs to the minority. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Intellectual, Minorities, Race, 0 - H. L. Mencken
One mark of a second-rate mind is to be always telling stories. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Religion is the everlasting dialogue between humanity and God. Art is its soliloquy. - Franz Werfel Novelist · Austria
Two quite opposite qualities equally bias our minds – habits and novelty. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
Timorous minds are much more inclined to deliberate than to resolve. - Jean Francois Paul de Gondi Clergy · France
I didn’t mind my own company as a child; I was happy playing alone in the sandpit. - Michael Leunig Cartoonist · Australia
