H. L. Mencken quotes - page 10

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. (H. L. Mencken)
Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. View quote
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Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. View quote
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. View quote
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse. View quote
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Every man is his own hell. View quote
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man. View quote
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. View quote
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A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. View quote
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. View quote
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank. (H. L. Mencken)
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. View quote
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago. View quote
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I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. View quote
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Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian Businessman. View quote
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Life is a dead-end street. View quote
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A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. View quote
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There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. View quote
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. View quote
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. View quote
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I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. (H. L. Mencken)
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. View quote
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Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull. View quote
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. View quote
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The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral. View quote
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H. L. Mencken

Occupation: American Journalist
Born: September 12, 1880
Died: January 29, 1956
Quotes count: 458
Wikipedia: H. L. Mencken

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