Great Throughts Treasury

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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

If I had my way no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust or profit under the United States, and all female athletes would be shipped to the white-slave corrals of the Argentine.

Life | Life | People | Style |

Gustave Flaubert

There was an air of indifference about them, a calm produced by the gratification of every passion; and through their manners were suave, one could sense beneath them that special brutality which comes from the habit of breaking down half-hearted resistances that keep one fit and tickle one?s vanity?the handling of blooded horses, the pursuit of loose women.

Day | Fate | God | Hate | Life | Life | Nothing | Fate | God |

Gustave Flaubert

When all was over at the cemetery Charles returned to the house. There was no one downstairs. He went up into the bedroom and saw her dress hanging up at the foot of the bed. Then, leaning against the secretaire, he remained there till it was dark, lost in sorrowful meditation. After all, she had loved him.

Life | Life |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to do so, for his death is a benefit to the race in general.

Earth | Heart | Life | Life | Man | Smile | Will | Worth |

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

Beginning | Life | Life |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

Better | Friend |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

Death | Life | Life |

Gustave Flaubert

There is no truth except in its relation, that is to say, the fashion in which we perceive the objects.

Life | Life |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue.

Life | Life | Television |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

Woman |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

Hans Rosling

You have to fit in sometimes to make people comfortable to listen to you.

Good | Life | Life |

Italian Proverbs

Of this world each man has as much as he takes.

Life | Life | Men |

Italian Proverbs

The eye of the master fattens the horse.

Experience | Life | Life | Principles | Psychology | Time | Youth | Youth |

Italian Proverbs

Much smoke, and little roast.

Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |

Italian Proverbs

Not all truths are proper to be told.

Life | Life |

Italian Proverbs

Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.

Business | Government | Right | Wealth | Government | Business |

Italian Proverbs

The heart does not think all the mouth says.

Italian Proverbs

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

People | Present | Relationship |