18 Quotations by H.L. Mencken
- 1. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
- 2. A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child
- 3. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
- 4. All the extravagance and incompetence of our present Government is due, in the main, to lawyers, and ...
- 5. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. The absence of alternatives cle ...
- 6. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to ...
- 7. I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs.
- 8. Most people want security in this world, not liberty
- 9. No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice ...
- 10. No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight
- 11. On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women
- 12. One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their ...
- 13. Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usuall ...
- 14. Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped i ...
- 15. Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyw ...
- 16. Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse
- 17. The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated
- 18. We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine
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