H. L. Mencken
Quotations
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“Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.” -H. L. Mencken
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“If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.” -H. L. Mencken
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“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.” -H. L. Mencken
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“In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered there is only error to be exposed.” -H. L. Mencken
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“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.” -H. L. Mencken
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“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.” -H. L. Mencken
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“I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.” -H. L. Mencken
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“A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” -H. L. Mencken
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“We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.” -H. L. Mencken
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“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.” -H. L. Mencken
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“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.” -H. L. Mencken
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“The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.” -H. L. Mencken
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“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.” -H. L. Mencken
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“To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!” -H. L. Mencken
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“For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.” -H. L. Mencken
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“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.” -H. L. Mencken
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“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.” -H. L. Mencken
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“On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” -H. L. Mencken
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“There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.” -H. L. Mencken
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“The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?” -H. L. Mencken
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“We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.” -H. L. Mencken
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“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.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.” -H. L. Mencken
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“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.” -H. L. Mencken
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“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.” -H. L. Mencken
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. – H. L. Mencken
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