Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. "
H. L. Mencken
Fool
May
He
Related Quotes:
" In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. "
H. L. Mencken
Veterans Day
Soldiers
War
" Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. "
H. L. Mencken
Race
Human
Human Race
" In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican. "
H. L. Mencken
World
Politics
Sin
" Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on. "
H. L. Mencken
Woman
Always
Looking
" One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable. "
H. L. Mencken
Most
Human
Friendship
" Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. "
H. L. Mencken
Time
Day
Election
" Time stays, we go. "
H. L. Mencken
Time
Stays
Go
" Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. "
H. L. Mencken
Legend
Lie
Age
" 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
Seriously
Men
Teach
" Criticism is prejudice made plausible. "
H. L. Mencken
Prejudice
Made
Plausible
" Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. "
H. L. Mencken
Giving
Man
Wise
" A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. "
H. L. Mencken
Animal
Sit
Ground
" War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands. "
H. L. Mencken
World
War
Begin
" I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone. "
H. L. Mencken
Liberty
Believe
I Believe
" Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. "
H. L. Mencken
Government
Democracy
Science
" Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. "
H. L. Mencken
Sister
Year
Wife
" If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner. "
H. L. Mencken
Promise
Politician
He
" Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. "
H. L. Mencken
Mother-In-Law
Visit
Never
" Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop. "
H. L. Mencken
Stop
Love Is
War
" No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. "
H. L. Mencken
Worse
Single
Used
" The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. "
H. L. Mencken
Proof
God
Thought
" Honor is simply the morality of superior men. "
H. L. Mencken
Morality
Men
Superior
" Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. "
H. L. Mencken
Other
Like
Up
" I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. "
H. L. Mencken
Confess
Amusing
Democracy
" Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. "
H. L. Mencken
Progress
American
Average
" 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
Ocean
Mind
Man
" I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. "
H. L. Mencken
Until
Smoked
Nine
" Every man is his own hell. "
H. L. Mencken
Every Man
Own
Man
" To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true! "
H. L. Mencken
Men
Much
True
" Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse. "
H. L. Mencken
Might
Universities
Worse