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After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.

H. L. Mencken

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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Death Flower Funny Humor
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
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Freedom Government Ideas Kind Men
The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
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Children Failure God Man Success Theory
On one issue, at least, men and women agree. They both distrust women.
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Funny Issues Man Trust Women
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Ideal Myself Rose
There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Honesty Impossible Life Politics
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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Freedom Government Integrity Live Men Shame
The ideal way to get rid of any infectious disease would be to shoot instantly every person who comes down with it.
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Death Freedom Ideal Kill Sick
The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.
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Danger Government Himself Men Thinking
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
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Courage Emotion Fear Himself Men Safety
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done.
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Action Hell Talk
Government’s great contribution to human wisdom is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.
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Discovery Government Human Liberty Wisdom
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.
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Leadership Men Priviledge Right Value
Change is not progress.
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Change Difference One Liner Progress
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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Heart Husband Intelligence Listening Men Simplicity Woman
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.
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Government Himself Men Oppression

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