#ink

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

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#almost #any #comes #conclusion #dangerous

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#genuinely #happy #man #married #married man

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#equipment #fly #just #lack #moon

Consciousness of myself, combined with complete ignorance of everything that does not fall within my sphere of thinking, is the most telling proof of my substantiality outside God, of my original existence. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#complete #consciousness #does #everything #existence

I've been with the same person for a very long time but I'm just non-conventional in that way. I don't think people need to be married. I think a lot of people need that piece of paper, but I don't think everybody needs that to feel secure. ↗

— Eva Mendes

#body needs #everybody #feel #i #i think

Personally, I think wearing a baby chinchilla says, 'I'm ignorant.' ↗

— Eva Mendes

#i #i think #ignorant #personally #says

On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics. ↗

— Angela Merkel

#deal #european #financial #hand #i

I don't think it's possible to have a wedding without it being stressful! ↗

— Debra Messing

#i #possible #stressful #think #wedding

Now, I'm not suggesting we're going to wait 40 years or even four years, but I think we have to put in perspective the fact that we've come quite a distance. We have quite a distance to come - go, as well. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#distance #even #fact #four #go