257 Quotations by H. L. Mencken
- 121. Jury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business e ...
- 122. Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
- 123. Legend is a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- 124. Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- 125. Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
- 126. Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
- 127. Life is a dead-end street.
- 128. Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had an ...
- 129. Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
- 130. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- 131. Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
- 132. Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. W ...
- 133. Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
- 134. Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on ...
- 135. Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her hea ...
- 136. Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is ...
- 137. Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
- 138. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
- 139. Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. ...
- 140. Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their ...
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