Quotes by Mencken, H. L.

Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all >>

If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himsel >>

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. >>

Quotations about Doubt

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate >>

The road to perseverance lies by doubt. >>

Doubt, the essential preliminary of all improvement and discovery, mus >>

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

Mencken, H. L.