257 Quotations by H. L. Mencken
- 21. A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendura ...

- 22. A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.

- 23. Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

- 24. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

- 25. Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

- 26. Alimony: the ransom the happy pay to the devil.

- 27. All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle an ...
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- 28. All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle an ...
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- 29. All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle an ...
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- 30. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

- 31. All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anyth ...

- 32. An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will ...

- 33. And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Scho ...

- 34. Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

- 35. Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterili ...

- 36. Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

- 37. Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

- 38. Archbishop: a Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

- 39. As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul ...

- 40. As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

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