257 Quotations by H. L. Mencken
						
					
					
- 161. On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. 

 
- 162. One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly m ... 

 
- 163. One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will ... 

 
- 164. Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. 

 
- 165. Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. 

 
- 166. Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usuall ... 

 
- 167. Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. 

 
- 168. Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. 

 
- 169. Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. 

 
- 170. Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. 

 
- 171. Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. 

 
- 172. Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. 

 
- 173. Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it. 

 
- 174. Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that th ... 

 
- 175. School-days... are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unint ... 

 
- 176. Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. 

 
- 177. Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. 

 
- 178. Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. 

 
- 179. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what ... 

 
- 180. Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. 

 
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