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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.
By H. L. Mencken
One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.
By H. L. Mencken
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.
By H. L. Mencken
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.
By H. L. Mencken
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
By H. L. Mencken
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
By H. L. Mencken
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
By H. L. Mencken
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
By H. L. Mencken
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
By H. L. Mencken
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
By H. L. Mencken
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest.
By H. L. Mencken
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.
By H. L. Mencken
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
By H. L. Mencken
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
By H. L. Mencken
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.
By H. L. Mencken