Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H. L. Mencken

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

H. L. Mencken

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.

H. L. Mencken

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

H. L. Mencken

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

H. L. Mencken

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

H. L. Mencken

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

H. L. Mencken

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

H. L. Mencken

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.

H. L. Mencken

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

H. L. Mencken

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

H. L. Mencken

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

H. L. Mencken

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Greg Kinnear

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

Jack London

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Marriage marks the end of many short follies - being one long stupidity.

Jessica Simpson

Isn't it weird that I'm getting all emotionable?

Jerry Coleman

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

Jerry Coleman

Last night's homer was Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500.

Jerry Coleman

Renko has just about had it. Pretty soon somebody will come out of the dugout with a fork and get him.

Jerry Coleman

George Hendrick simply lost that sun-blown pop-up.

Jerry Coleman

The Cards lead the Dodgers 4-2 after one inning and that one hasn't even started.

Jerry Coleman

Ozzie Smith is out there roaming around like glass.

Jerry Coleman

Billy Almon has all of his in-laws and outlaws here this afternoon.

Jerry Coleman

Templeton is as hot as you can be and still walk!

Jerry Coleman

I don't know about Willie Davis. He's not as young as he used to be.

Jerry Coleman

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.

Jerry Coleman

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

Jerry Coleman

Zane Smith is a guy who can shut you out as well as look at you.