Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old H.l. Mencken quotes, H.l. Mencken sayings, and H.l. Mencken proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts. H.L. Mencken
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it.H.L. Mencken
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.H.L. Mencken
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.H.L. Mencken
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule and both commonly succeed, and are right.H.L. Mencken
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Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.H.L. Mencken
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.H.L. Mencken
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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
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I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.H.L. Mencken
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Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.H.L. Mencken
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Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.H.L. Mencken
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Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead.H.L. Mencken
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Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn't believe he is dead.H.L. Mencken
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The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts.H.L. Mencken
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.H.L. Mencken
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Inaction, save as a measure of recuperation between bursts of activity, is painful and dangerous to the healthy organism - in fact, it is almost impossible. Only the dying can he really idle.H.L. Mencken
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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 and chemistry.H.L. Mencken
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.H.L. Mencken
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Take them (women) away, and his existence is a s flat and secure as that of a moo-cow.H.L. Mencken
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.H.L. Mencken
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it makes a better soup.H.L. Mencken
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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.H.L. Mencken
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New York is the place where all the aspirations of the Western World meet to form one vast master aspiration, as powerful as the suction of a steam dredge. It is the icing on the pie called Christian civilization. H.L. Mencken
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For every problem, there is a solution, which is simple, clean, and wrong.H.L. Mencken
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act; even when it has worked and he has not been caught.H.L. Mencken
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The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots but as a party of bandits.H.L. Mencken
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24 hours in a day. 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.H.L. Mencken
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24 hours in a day. 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not.H.L. Mencken
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.H.L. Mencken
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He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.H.L. Mencken