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

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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

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.

Time stays, we go.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable.

He slept more than any other President, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.

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

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

A bore is simply a nonentity who resents his humble lot in life, and seeks satisfaction for his wounded ego by forcing himself on his betters.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent-slimy, sneaking and abominable.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

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.

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