What did H.L. Mencken mean by: A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA Copy
+ Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Feraz Zeid, June 22, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Democracy, Ignorance, Wisdom, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Alimony – the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. Feraz Zeid, July 18, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Divorce, Marriage, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. Feraz Zeid, October 17, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Marriage, Relationships, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. Feraz Zeid, February 5, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Flowers, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. Feraz Zeid, February 15, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Respect, Self, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ The cynics are right nine times out of ten. Feraz Zeid, August 12, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Cynicism, Pessimism, Realism, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. Feraz Zeid, May 2, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Charming, Convincing, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. Feraz Zeid, June 4, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Conscience, Inner Voice, Looking, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
The laws of art are eternal and don’t change at all, as the moral laws don’t change in human beings. - Max Beckmann Painter · Germany
You’re an Attorney. It’s your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Me, rule? Me, place the State under my law, when my feeble reason no longer rules even myself! - Jean Racine Playwright · France
Laws are always useful to those who possess and vexatious to those who have nothing. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Good laws lead to the making of better ones; bad ones bring about worse. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
Yet you would not drive a car with your mouth unless you are my mother-in-law. - Jean-Louis Gassee Entrepreneur · France
