Famous Quotes / H. L. Mencken
257 Quotations by H. L. Mencken
- 181. Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in heaven, and that their neighb ...
- 182. Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
- 183. Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Fathe ...
- 184. The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is t ...
- 185. The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not s ...
- 186. The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not s ...
- 187. The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at ...
- 188. The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other a ...
- 189. The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
- 190. The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books, is the knowledge that very few of them are w ...
- 191. The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
- 192. The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
- 193. The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a d ...
- 194. The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.
- 195. The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the ...
- 196. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- 197. The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act ...
- 198. The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. ...
- 199. The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.
- 200. The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another ...