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H L Mencken
If I had...
If I had my way, no man guilty of golf would be eligible to any office of trust under the United...
Conscience is the...
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Source: A...
The average man...
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he...
Inaction, save as...
Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy...
Writing books is...
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go...
A home is...
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in...
As the arteries...
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.
Source:
-- H L Mencken, (Sep...
Evil: That which...
Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a...
Giving every man...
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them...
Any man who...
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
Man is always...
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head...
Bachelors have consciences,...
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Source:
-- H L Mencken,...
I believe in...
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon...
How little it...
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's...
Don't overestimate the...
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
Source:
-- H L Mencken, (Sep...
Adultery is the...
Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
Source: A Book of Burlesques, in...
Democracy is only...
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and...
Life is a...
Life is a dead-end street.
Source:
-- H L Mencken, (Sep 12 1880-1956), US...
It is impossible...
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an...
For it is...
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom...