All H. L. Mencken Quotes
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H. L. Mencken
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H. L. Mencken in
Marriage
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
H. L. Mencken
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The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.
H. L. Mencken
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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Marriage
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. Mencken
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
H. L. Mencken
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
H. L. Mencken
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken in
Love
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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 in
Politics
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