Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.- H. L. Mencken
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.- H. L. Mencken
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.- H. L. Mencken
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.- H. L. Mencken
When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.- H. L. Mencken
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.- H. L. Mencken
What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.- 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.- 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.- H. L. Mencken
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.- H. L. Mencken
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.- H. L. Mencken
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.- H. L. Mencken
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.- H. L. Mencken
To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!- 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.- H. L. Mencken
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