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There are 173 quotes for the author H. L. (henry Louis) Mencken

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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
Subject: Men Women Hate

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
Subject: Politics Common Sense Honesty

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Subject: Love & Romance

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
Subject: Patriotism Honor

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Subject: Americans
Work:

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Subject: Lies
Work:

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.
Subject: Truth

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
Subject: Money

In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
Subject: America

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
Subject: Taxes

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
Subject: Men

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Subject: Wisdom

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Subject: Age

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

The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office.
Subject: Government
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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.
Subject: Boredom

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Subject: Criticism

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Subject: Religion

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Subject: Golf
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