A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemor…

H. L. Mencken
520 citations
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die. ✨ The 100 best nonfiction books: No 49 - The American Language by HL Mencken (1919) by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 9, 2017.
Death Life Reading
16

More Author Quotes

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. ✨ H.L. Mencken A little book in C major, Рипол Классик
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. ✨ H.L. Mencken (2012). Mencken Chrestomathy, p.359, Vintage
All great religions, in order to escape absurdity, have to admit a dilution of agnosticism. It is only the savage, whether of the African bush or the American gospel tent, who pretends to know the wi … ▶
The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really not any thirst for knowledge, but simply a yearning for … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes