What did H.L. Mencken mean by: In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA Copy
+ Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. Feraz Zeid, August 4, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Democracy, Politics, Society, 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
+ Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. Feraz Zeid, October 7, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Love, War, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. Feraz Zeid, October 1, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Deception, Fraud, Lying, 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
+ Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. Feraz Zeid, February 20, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Conscience, Never, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. Feraz Zeid, September 5, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Hard, Heart, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. Feraz Zeid, February 4, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Money, Value, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
I won’t undertake war until I have tried all the arts and means of peace. - François Rabelais Author · France
Everyone, when there’s war in the air, learns to live in a new element: falsehood. - Jean Giraudoux Playwright · France
Like the greatest virtue and the worst dogs, the fiercest hatred is silent. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
It is the people who have no say in making wars who suffer from the consequences of them. - Jean Plaidy Author · England
When war becomes a trade, it benefits, like all other trades, from the division of labour. - Jean-Baptiste Say Economist · France
Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. Explain - Jean-Jacques Rousseau Philosopher · Switzerland
