Quotes 281 till 300 of 393.
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The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal - well-meaning but without understanding.
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The human heart likes a little disorder in its geometry.
Kapitein Corelli's mandoline (1994) 256 -
The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.
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The idea that leisure is of value in itself is only conditionally true. The average man simply spends his leisure as a dog spends it. His recreations are all puerile, and the time supposed to benefit him really only stupefies him.
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The little rift between the sexes is astonishingly widened by simply teaching one set of catchwords to the girls and another to the boys.
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The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.
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The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) -
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
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The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?
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The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed and tanked up on good wine gives his old lady a kiss after supper and his day is over. Finished.
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The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
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The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
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The poetry of heroism appeals irresistibly to those who don't go to a war, and even more to those whom the war is making enormously wealthy. It's always so.
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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
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