H. L. Mencken Quotes

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

H. L. Mencken

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WrongMoralityHumanRightActMust

Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants.

John Shimkus

PeopleEmpireMiddleIndigenousAsia

A goal is a goal no matter which end it goes in. I'm pleased to get off the mark again.

Robbie Fowler

EndGoalMatterMarkGetOff

I eat healthy year round.

Ronnie Coleman

YearHealthyEatRound

There are no shortcuts in evolution.

Louis D. Brandeis

ScienceEvolutionShortcuts

People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in relationships and death and cancer and abuse.

Jason Isbell

LoveRomanticDeathPeopleProblems

I never had a car in high school, and I never had a car in college. I wasn't much of a run-around.

Josh McDaniels

CarSchoolCollegeHigh SchoolNever

I will always do music, and now - with where the world is going with social media and people dropping stuff for free and doing this and doing that - there's no excuse.

Christina Milian

MusicSocial MediaPeopleWorldFree

Think of the first Apple II being shipped in 1977. It took almost a decade for it to land in my school where I could see it.

Brendan Iribe

SchoolThinkAppleLandFirstSee

I've had ample contact with lawyers, and I'm convinced that the only fortune they ever leave is their own.

Wilson Mizner

LawyersContactLeaveOwnFortune

Don't pessimism and caution naturally go hand in hand?

Lynne Truss

GoHandCautionPessimismNaturally

I am very efficient.

Liane Moriarty

I AmEfficientVeryAm

In beauty, there's this idea of this perfect picture, and I think, 'How about being present in the now, and a little messy?'

Emily Weiss

BeautyThinkPresentPicturePerfect

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