#ill

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#been #brag #church #gentlemen #get

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#better #cabbage #concludes #idealist #make

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#being #billiards #golf #good #imagine

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#go #go to hell #hell #live #may

I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration. ↗

— Freddie Mercury

#college #diploma #ealing #got #graphics

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#born #die #long #man #she

The most all penetrating spirit before which will open the possibility of tilting not tables, but planets, is the spirit of free human inquiry. Believe only in that. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#believe #free #human #inquiry #most

Instead, it appears to be a particular mark of beauty that it is considered with tranquil satisfaction; that it pleases if we also do not possess it and we are still far removed from demanding to possess it. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#appears #beauty #considered #demanding #far

When Socrates was about 30, and his father was long dead, he was still pursuing the art of sculpture, but from necessity, and without much inclination. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#art #dead #father #his #inclination

I'm definitely responsible for the image that I put out there. But it does become frustrating, because I don't want 'sexy' to be my defining characteristic. I'd love for my ambition and will and intellect and sense of humour to define me as well. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#because #become #characteristic #define #defining