Quotes by H. L. Mencken

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.close quote - H. L. Mencken

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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.close quote - H. L. Mencken

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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.close quote - 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.close quote - H. L. Mencken

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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.close quote - H. L. Mencken

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When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.close quote - H. L. Mencken
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.close quote - H. L. Mencken
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.close quote - H. L. Mencken
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.close quote - H. L. Mencken

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We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.close quote - H. L. Mencken

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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.close quote - H. L. Mencken

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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.close quote - H. L. Mencken
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.close quote - H. L. Mencken

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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!close quote - H. L. Mencken
To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.close quote - H. L. Mencken

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