257 Quotations by H. L. Mencken
- 61. Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just afte ...
- 62. Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of ...
- 63. Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to s ...
- 64. Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
- 65. For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- 66. For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
- 67. For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong
- 68. For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- 69. For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our f ...
- 70. Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
- 71. God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only san ...
- 72. Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, a ...
- 73. Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- 74. Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and mis ...
- 75. He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.
- 76. Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
- 77. Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
- 78. Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
- 79. Honor is simply the morality of superior men.
- 80. How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a w ...
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