#eli

There are some persons in this world, who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them. ↗

— Herman Melville

#better #delight #give #mankind #persons

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#hard #his #know #lie #man

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#better #free #i #i believe #i believe that

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

— H. L. Mencken

#secure #self-respect #suspicious #yet

It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#about #believe #enough #must #talk

I still can't quite believe it. Although there was something about the fact that it was a first-time writer, a first-time producer, and a first-time director all at the same time. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#although #believe #director #fact #first-time

It was fun while it lasted, but it never seemed real to me. I could not believe I was in Van Halen. ↗

— Gary Cherone

#could #fun #halen #i #lasted

In the United States I have always believed that there was a big difference between Conservative and stupid. Boy is it getting harder to prove that one by the minute. ↗

— Rick Mercer

#believed #between #big #big difference #boy

Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. ↗

— George Meredith

#felicity #object #obligation #possessed #possession

Please accept a promise from me in his name that I will always live in the religion in which he died. ↗

— Giacomo Meyerbeer

#always #died #his #i #live