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

Quotations 141 to 160 of 173 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

Under democracy, one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -and both commonly succeed, and are right.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

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.

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

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.

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

Life is a dead-end street.

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

There is always an easy solution to every...problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

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