What did H.L. Mencken mean by: Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA Copy
+ A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. Feraz Zeid, September 20, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Animal, Fence, Politics, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race. Feraz Zeid, April 6, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Decency, Human, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. Feraz Zeid, May 22, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Heroes, War, 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
+ Let’s not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse. Feraz Zeid, February 3, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Damage, Education, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine. Feraz Zeid, July 25, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Human, Knowledge, 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
+ It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. Feraz Zeid, July 20, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Art, Genius, Music, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
Love cries victory when the tears of a woman become the sole defence of her virtue. - Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted. - George Eliot Author · England
Ironically, we are all too often educated out of rather than in to an awareness of the body. - Jean Houston Scholar
I have not been so much pushed by winds as pulled forward by the force of my decisions. - Jean Kwok Author
Cinema teaches us about the human body and how we look at things. - Jean-Luc Godard Filmmaker · France
Fish is meant to tempt as well as nourish, and everything that lives in water is seductive. - Jean-Paul Aron
Love is the one thing stronger than desire and the only proper reason to resist temptation. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
We have so many words for states of mind, and so few words for the states of the body. - Jeanne Moreau Actress · France