H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Jealousy is the theory that some other fellow has just as little taste.

Worth |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature? the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.

Hannah Arendt

The greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons

Thought | Wise | Thought |

Hans Küng

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

Italian Proverbs

No one knows where the shoe pinches, but he who wears it.

Business | Cost | Enough | Reading | Business | Value |

Italian Proverbs

One who wants to keep their yard tidy does not reserve a plot for the weeds.

Change | Civilization | Future | Global | Health | Inconvenient | Land | Security | Will |

Italian Proverbs

Still water breeds vermin.

Fear | Future | Hope | Think |

Italian Proverbs

Never was a mewing cat a good mouser.

Future | Passion |

Italian Proverbs

Take down a thief from the gallows and he will hang you up.

Future | Hope |

Italian Proverbs

The dog that means to bite don't bark.

Books | Reading | Value |

Italian Proverbs

One should learn to sail in all winds.

Future | Will |

Italian Proverbs

The difficult thing is to get foot in the stirrup.

Books | Future | Wonder | Words |

Italian Proverbs

Once resolved, the trouble is over.

Church | Counsel | Rest | Counsel |

Italian Proverbs

The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

Italian Proverbs

That which the wise man does first, the fool does last.

People | Present | Relationship |

Italian Proverbs

One can't enter Paradise in spite of the saints.

Calmness | Future | Good |

Italian Proverbs

Of three things the devil makes a salad: advocate's tongues, notaries' fingers, and a third that shall be nameless.

Individual | Thought | Will | Thought |

Italian Proverbs

The devil is bad because he is old.

Ability | Age | Art | Control | Culture | Humor | Memory | Need | Time | Work | World | Art |

Italian Proverbs

When a wife sins the husband is never innocent.

Education | Ideas | Justify | Knowledge | Learning | Literature | Need | People | Question | Study | Virtue | Virtue | Will | Value |