A Quote by H. L. Mencken

Nature abhors a moron.

H. L. Mencken

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Moron Nature

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H. L. Mencken
American - Writer
September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

I've been called a moron since I was about four. My father called me a moron. My grandfather said I was a moron. And a lot of times when I'm driving, I hear I'm a moron. I like being a moron.

Adam Sandler

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality."

Soseki Natsume

Nature abhors a garden.

Michael Pollan

Nature abhors annihilation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Nature abhors the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature abhors a vacuum.

Francois Rabelais

Nature abhors the vacuum tube.

John R. Pierce

I am so in favor of the actual infinite that instead of admitting that Nature abhors it, as is commonly said, I hold that Nature makes frequent use of it everywhere, in order to show more effectively the perfections of its Author.

Gottfried Leibniz

Nature abhors a virgin - a frozen asset.

Clare Boothe Luce

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Baruch Spinoza

It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call themselves unbelievers often use the word gesturally, as a ready-made synonym for mystery. But if nature abhors a vacuum, Christ abhors a vagueness. If God is love, Christ is love for this one person, this one place, this one time-bound and time-ravaged self.