H. L. Mencken's Quotes

H. L. Mencken's Quotes 167

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving...

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later...

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

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that...

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness but after that...

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to...

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of...

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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

Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.

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

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence...

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and...

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and...

Husbands never become good they merely become proficient.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or...

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

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

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

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof...

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