Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Henry Louis Mencken quotes, Henry Louis Mencken sayings, and Henry Louis Mencken proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in HellHenry Louis Mencken
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch themHenry Louis Mencken
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.Henry Louis Mencken
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Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.Henry Louis Mencken
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.Henry Louis Mencken
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Honor is simply the morality of superior men.Henry Louis Mencken
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last oneHenry Louis Mencken
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.Henry Louis Mencken
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.Henry Louis Mencken
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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.Henry Louis Mencken
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Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.Henry Louis Mencken
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The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.Henry Louis Mencken
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.Henry Louis Mencken
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You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.Henry Louis Mencken
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.Henry Louis Mencken
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.Henry Louis Mencken
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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.Henry Louis Mencken
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A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.Henry Louis Mencken
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A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.Henry Louis Mencken
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Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.Henry Louis Mencken
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Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by school ma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.Henry Louis Mencken
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A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.Henry Louis Mencken
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.Henry Louis Mencken
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The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits.Henry Louis Mencken
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Judge – A law student who marks his own examination papers.Henry Louis Mencken