H. L. Mencken quotes

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. (H. L. Mencken)
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. View quote
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier. View quote
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. View quote
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. View quote
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. View quote
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It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. View quote
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. View quote
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. View quote
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. View quote
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. (H. L. Mencken)
Theology --An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing. View quote
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. View quote
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. View quote
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. View quote
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Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. View quote
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Creator - A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh. View quote
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The only really happy folk are married women and single men. View quote
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Misogynist - A man who hates women as much as women hate one another. View quote
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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. View quote
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For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong. (H. L. Mencken)
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. View quote
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. View quote
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No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not. View quote
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Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone. View quote
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