H. L. Mencken's Quotes

H. L. Mencken's Quotes 167

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be...

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent...

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own...

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for...

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their...

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and...

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an...

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to...

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship...

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown,...

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the...

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's...

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To...

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible...

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of,...

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to...

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