When a man laughs at his misfortunes, he loses a great
many friends. They never forgive the loss of their perogative.
-- H. L. Mencken
many friends. They never forgive the loss of their perogative.
-- H. L. Mencken
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- A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L.... - Every man is his own hell. -- H. L.
Mencken (1880... - A man may be a fool and not know it -- but not if he is married.
H. L.... - No man, examining his marriage intelligently, can fail to observe
that it is compounded,
at least in part, of slavery, and that he is the slave... - It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that
you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L.... - The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even
ordinarily respectable.
H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First... - A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
H. L.... - A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness,
but after that begins to bunch them. -- H. L. Mencken...
From the same category:
- The weather is the part of this planet's career that
we can notice in our back yards... - I'd love to, but...
I don't want to leave my comfort zone.
41 of 101 Easy Ways To Say... - The gentle minde by gentle deeds is knowne;
For a man by nothing is so well bewrayed
As by his manners.
Edmund Spenser (1553-1599) -- The Faerie Queene, Book... - A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.
Franz... - Robocommies do it
with EZ...
