H. L. Mencken Quotes

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H. L. Mencken

Profession : Writer

Birth : September 12, 1880

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

H. L. Mencken

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

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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.

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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

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Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.

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Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

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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.

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Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

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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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The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.

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All government, of course, is against liberty.

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

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Time stays, we go.

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