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H. L. Mencken Quotes

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

Topics

Believe True Mankind Chief Most

People who wave digital cameras at shows are the same people who sit in front of you at hockey games and wear those giant foam-rubber fingers that say, We're number one!'

People Hockey Wave You Say Games

I only live in my music, and I have scarcely begun one thing when I start on another. As I am now working, I am often engaged on three or four things at the same time.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Live Music Time I Am Start Three

Floral emblems have been often adopted. The houses of York and Lancaster had their roses, the Bourbons of France, the fleur-de-lis, Scotland her thistle, and Ireland her shamrock.

Roses Her Scotland Been Ireland Had

There's a lot of pretty funny women out there.

Chelsea Handler

Funny Women Out Pretty Lot

When a woman isn't beautiful, people always say, 'You have lovely eyes, you have lovely hair.'

Beautiful Eyes Woman People Hair

Open platforms historically undergo a lot of scrutiny, but there are a lot of advantages to having an open source platform from a security standpoint.

Security Open Source Open Source

I'm from Canada, and I think, like everyone growing up anywhere else in the world, you are very aware of America - it sort of looms large in its legend, and so did Detroit.

Growing Up World Think Legend You

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

Place Act Theater Before Verb Noun

There's an inherent contradiction between appreciating the beauty of clothes and creativity and individuality, and the waste around the ideas of trends and seasons.

Beauty Creativity Ideas Seasons

Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not, however, an unhappy person.

Lesley Manville

Day Me Unhappy Person Say One Day

I was born in St. Louis; I lived there for three weeks and then my father graduated from St. Louis University, so we all got in the car and split. I don't really remember much. I grew up in Connecticut most of my life and then four years in Germany. My father worked for a helicopter company, so we went over there.

Life Father Car My Life Remember

We will never be defined by tragedy but, instead, by how we respond to it.

Tragedy Will Never Respond How

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