Famous Quotes & Sayings

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 I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.

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.

Guillermo del Toro

Ghosts are a metaphor that can be interpreted so many different ways. There's no ending to what you can do. You can make it a fun ghost story. You can make it a deeply disturbing, psychological ghost story.

Greg Lake

Philosophically, what I have learned is to thy own self be true. That is the biggest lesson of all. Relax; music is fun. To many people take it to seriously because of the money involved.

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.

Grace Jones

In the Seventies and Eighties we all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far. But, ultimately, it required a certain amount of clear thinking, a lot of hard work and good make-up to be accepted as a freak.

Grace Paley

The best training is to read and write, no matter what. Don't live with a lover or roommate who doesn't respect your work. Don't lie, buy time, borrow to buy time. Write what will stop your breath if you don't write.

Jack London

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

Ja Rule

I think I wanna do some action stuff down the road. I wanna kill some aliens. Something real fun, you know? Just a big, fun movie.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

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

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

Grant Bowler

I love playing bad guys; they're always much more fun than the good guy.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

Geoffrey Zakarian

My agent called me and said, they watched you do Chopped Champions and they thought you'd be good for this competition. What do you think? And I said, well, what do you think? He said he thought it would be great and I said let's do it. When you decide to do this, you don't really think that you're going to win it. I thought it would be fun, good to test my mettle; games are fun like that. Why not? I'll try it.

Gene Hackman

Once, I optioned a novel and tried to do a screenplay on it, which was great fun, but I was too respectful. I was only 100 pages into the novel and I had about 90 pages of movie script going. I realized I had a lot to learn.

Gary Gygax

I would like the world to remember me as the guy who really enjoyed playing games and sharing his knowledge and his fun pastimes with everybody else.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned.

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.