H L Mencken

Adultery is the...

Adultery is the...

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

Source: A Book of Burlesques, in...

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Democracy is only...

Democracy is only...

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

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Life is a...

Life is a...

Life is a dead-end street.

Source:
-- H L Mencken, (Sep 12 1880-1956), US...

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It is impossible...

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...

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For it is...

For it is...

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom...

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Bachelors know more...

Bachelors know more...

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.

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Love is the...

Love is the...

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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-- H L Mencken,...

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Love is an...

Love is an...

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with...

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Progress is the...

Progress is the...

Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and...

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I never agree...

I never agree...

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

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-- H L...

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Men have a...

Men have a...

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

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The curse of...

The curse of...

The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the...

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On one issue...

On one issue...

On one issue at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.

Source:...

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Remorse is regret...

Remorse is regret...

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.

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-- H L Mencken,...

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In war the...

In war the...

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

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-- H L...

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A metaphysician is...

A metaphysician is...

A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by...

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PURITANISM: The...

PURITANISM: The...

PURITANISM: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Source: A...

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To denounce moralizing...

To denounce moralizing...

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

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--...

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Temptation is an...

Temptation is an...

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body.

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-- H L...

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The capacity of...

The capacity of...

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other...

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