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
+ 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
+ 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
+ Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. Feraz Zeid, December 31, 2022January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Election, Stolen, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Feraz Zeid, November 20, 2022January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Imagination, Intelligence, Love, 0 - H.L. Mencken Journalist · USA
+ A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. Feraz Zeid, March 26, 2023January 10, 2024, H.L. Mencken, Dog, Fleas, Theory, 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 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
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
