Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.

H. L. Mencken's Popular Quotes

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

- H. L. Mencken

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

- H. L. Mencken

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

- H. L. Mencken

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

- H. L. Mencken

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyon…

- H. L. Mencken

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to di…

- H. L. Mencken

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

- H. L. Mencken

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

- H. L. Mencken

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

- H. L. Mencken