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H L Mencken Quotes
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin (H L Mencken Quotes)
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married (H L Mencken Quotes)
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking (H L Mencken Quotes)
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong (H L Mencken Quotes)
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine (H L Mencken Quotes)
If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies (H L Mencken Quotes)
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe (H L Mencken Quotes)
Verse libre; a device for making poetry easier to read and harder to write (H L Mencken Quotes)
The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate (H L Mencken Quotes)
No normal man ever fell in love after 30 when the kidneys begin to disintegrate (H L Mencken Quotes)
All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man (H L Mencken Quotes)
Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music (H L Mencken Quotes)
Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm (H L Mencken Quotes)
Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn (H L Mencken Quotes)
Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives (H L Mencken Quotes)
The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy (H L Mencken Quotes)
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong (H L Mencken Quotes)
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident (H L Mencken Quotes)
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something (H L Mencken Quotes)
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)
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)
The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads (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)