#more

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#dollars #hundred #husband #income #least

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#every #every man #free #giving #good

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

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#believed #deal #foolish #good #good deal

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#be prepared #crabs #fifty #good #may

The establishment of a law, moreover, does not take place when the first thought of it takes form, or even when its significance is recognised, but only when it has been confirmed by the results of the experiment. ↗

— Dmitri Mendeleev

#confirmed #does #establishment #even #experiment

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#debate #dispute #end #famous #fear

The analysis of concepts is for the understanding nothing more than what the magnifying glass is for sight. ↗

— Moses Mendelssohn

#concepts #glass #magnifying #more #nothing

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#me #more #movies #pictures #stories

The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. ↗

— Sam Mendes

#black-and-white #day #go #great #i