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H L Mencken Quotes

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Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation  (H L Mencken Quotes) When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money  (H L Mencken Quotes) Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again  (H L Mencken Quotes) School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence  (H L Mencken Quotes) I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind  (H L Mencken Quotes) The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike  (H L Mencken Quotes) People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police  (H L Mencken Quotes) For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together  (H L Mencken Quotes) There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character  (H L Mencken Quotes) Looking for an honest politician is like looking for an ethical burglar  (H L Mencken Quotes) Deep within the heart of every evangelist lies the wreck of a car salesman  (H L Mencken Quotes) No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate  (H L Mencken Quotes) Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions  (H L Mencken Quotes) Socialist: A man suffering from an overwhelming conviction to believe what is not true  (H L Mencken Quotes) The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads  (H L Mencken Quotes) No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him  (H L Mencken Quotes) It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry  (H L Mencken Quotes) The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal  (H L Mencken Quotes) It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of Gods  (H L Mencken Quotes) When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever... I do not believe in immortality, and have no desire for it  (H L Mencken Quotes) The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety  (H L Mencken Quotes) It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place  (H L Mencken Quotes) An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup  (H L Mencken Quotes) Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband  (H L Mencken Quotes) I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them  (H L Mencken Quotes) The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself  (H L Mencken Quotes) Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages  (H L Mencken Quotes) Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him  (H L Mencken Quotes) No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not  (H L Mencken Quotes) Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in  (H L Mencken Quotes)
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