What did H.L. Mencken mean by: All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA Copy
+ 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
+ Time stays, we go. Feraz Zeid, November 14, 2022January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Time, Travel, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. Feraz Zeid, December 12, 2022January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Clarity, Simplicity, Wrong, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. Feraz Zeid, December 5, 2022January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Age, Distrust, Wisdom, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Feraz Zeid, May 23, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Comedy, Fear, God, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. Feraz Zeid, January 29, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Decent, Government, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. Feraz Zeid, August 28, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Injustice, Justice, Pain, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Judge, Law, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it. Explain - Frederick Lenz Philosopher · USA
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
