What did H.L. Mencken mean by: Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA Copy
+ Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t they’d be married too. Feraz Zeid, May 26, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Marriage, Women, 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
+ Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. Feraz Zeid, August 7, 2023December 29, 2023, H.L. Mencken, Age, Dignity, Lie, 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
+ 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
+ I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. Feraz Zeid, January 12, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Book, Drunk, 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
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
