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H L Mencken
To be in...
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
Source: In
There is no...
There is no record in human history of a happy philosopher.
Source: In Webster's...
For every complex...
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
The typical lawmaker...
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle -- a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game....
What the mob...
What the mob thirsts for is not good government in itself, but the merry chase of a definite exponent of bad...
A man's women...
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as...
Women don't like...
Women don't like timid men. Cats do not like prudent mice.
Source: In Webster's...
If I ever...
If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
Source: In...
A good politician...
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
Source: In
A church is...
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get...
If Los Angeles...
If Los Angeles is not the one authentic rectum of civilization, then I am no anatomist. Any time you want to go out...
Have you ever...
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the...
One horse-laugh is...
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more...
A judge is...
A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.
Source: In
A prohibitionist is...
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
Most people want...
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
Source: Minority...
Honor is simply...
Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
Source: In
Strike an average...
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him...
I believe that...
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...
Democracy is also...
Democracy is also a form of religion. It is the worship of jackals by jackasses.