All H. L. Mencken Quotes
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken in
Love
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
H. L. Mencken
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken in
Love
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
H. L. Mencken in
Funny
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If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
H. L. Mencken in
Religion
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
H. L. Mencken
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken in
Funny
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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.
H. L. Mencken
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
H. L. Mencken in
Marriage
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I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
H. L. Mencken
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