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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF H. L. (henry Louis) Mencken |
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Quotes By author - Starting with H - H. L. (henry Louis) Mencken
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There are 173 quotes for the author H. L. (henry Louis) Mencken
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
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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.
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Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.
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As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
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To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. 3. Religion is the theory that the wheel was designed and set spinning to give him the ride.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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