H.L. Mencken Quotes


138 H.L. Mencken quotes:



"I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Writers And Writing Quotes
"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Worth Quotes
"When women kiss it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands"
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Women Quotes
"No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed"
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"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."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe"
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Trust Quotes
"Time stays, we go."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Time And Time Management Quotes
"The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?"
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Truth Quotes Teaching Quotes
"Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Taxes And Taxation Quotes
"How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Suffering Quotes
"Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Speakers And Speaking Quotes
"Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Heartbreak Quotes
"Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it"
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Regret Quotes
"After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Quotes Quotes
"Unionism, seldom if ever, uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguard bad work."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Quality Quotes
"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Problems Quotes
"Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love."
Author: Mencken Quotes Category: Pleasure Quotes



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