What did H. L. Mencken mean by: There is always a sheet of paper. There is always a pen. There is always a way out. - H. L. Mencken Copy
+ Democracy must be a sound scheme at bottom, else it would not survive such cruel strains. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Democracy, Schemes, Sound, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Economic, Foundation, Independence, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Freedom, Funny, Temptation, 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
+ Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Progress, Wisdom, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Democracy, Herds, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ The State doesn’t just want you to obey, it wants to make you WANT to obey. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, 0 - H. L. Mencken
+ God must love the rich or he wouldn’t divide so much among so few of them. Feraz Zeid, January 17, 2024January 17, 2024, H. L. Mencken, Divides, Rich, Wealth, 0 - H. L. Mencken
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I find you have to come as litmus paper and be available to whatever way you can be. - Jean Houston Scholar
I think I’m right-brained, incapable of managing my way out of a brown paper bag. - Jeremy Grantham Financier
Elaboration is not beauty, and sand-paper never finished a piece of bad work. - William Morris Hunt Painter · USA
A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper. - Frederick Philip Grove Author · Ukraine
Here’s the weird thing about the Murdoch family; They believe what they read in the papers. - Matthew Freud
