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No normal man ever fell in love after 30 when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.


Henry Louis Mencken

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IRVING THALBERG Don't ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.
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IKE BARINHOLTZ After a man falls madly in love, he no longer cares how old she is.
HELEN FISHER Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I fell in love for the right reason. I fell in love unconditionally.
HEATHER MILLS This is how the girl who couldn't speak and the man who couldn't see fell in love.
MARGARET ATWOOD Well honey, seems innocent enough to me. He came in and fell in love with your buns.
LORENA BATHEY No woman ever hates a man for being in love with her, but many a woman hate a man for being a friend...
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JAMES LEE BURKE I'm not normal when I play that position. I'm normal after the game, but not during the game.
BRIAN BARBER When you begin to run after miracles you reduce yourself.
SUNDAY ADELAJA When you begin to run after miracles, Jesus feels insulted.
SUNDAY ADELAJA When you begin to run after miracles you dehumanize yourself.
SUNDAY ADELAJA God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.
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Fell in love next,
Fell...
KAMAND KOJOURI When love is in excess it brings a man no honor nor worthiness.
EURIPIDES To avoid the continued attack, they rolled off the trail and fell about 30 feet.
MELISSA WILSON No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
E. W. HOWE When I made pictures, I fell in love with the world. When I made pictures, I felt whole.
STEPHEN KING The nagging question;Can you sacrifice one of your eyes or kidneys for the person you claim to love.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. Lawrence J. Peter -Henry Beecher.
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HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN If he became convinced tomorrow that coming out for cannibalism would get him the votes he so sorely...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN After all, the world is not our handiwork, and we are not responsible for what goes on in it, save w...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American people.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN What ass first let lose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries fo...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is unc...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what m...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Do not overestimate the decency of the human race
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her hea...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and t...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN And out of each (schoolhouse) is vomited the standard product of the New Pedagogy - an endless proce...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The lunatic fringe wags the underdog
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Creator: a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect ...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many in...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the truth as an adventur...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Painting is the art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather and exposing them to the critic
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Christian theology is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is opposed to every other form o...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, hone...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN What men value in this world is not rights but privileges
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and great...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to ...
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