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

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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.

Time stays, we go.

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

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

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

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

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

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.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw its tail, or a lizard catch flies, is precisely the sort of man whose mental weakness should be combatted at the public expense, and not fostered.

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