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

Quotations 81 to 100 of 173 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

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

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist, Jack.

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

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.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

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