H.L. Mencken Quotes
138 H.L. Mencken quotes:
"I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs."
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"Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse."
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"It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull."
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"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."
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"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking."
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"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."
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"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
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"To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia."
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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"
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"A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses"
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"It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man."
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"School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence."
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"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy"
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"Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another"
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"Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself."
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"The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it."
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"Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on."
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"All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them."
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"The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe"
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"Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it"
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