Tag: H. L. Mencken
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
H. L. Mencken
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H. L. Mencken
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Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.
H. L. Mencken
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H. L. Mencken
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
H. L. Mencken
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. Mencken
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
H. L. Mencken
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
H. L. Mencken
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken
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Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.
H. L. Mencken