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Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude (H L Mencken Quotes)
Why do men go to zoos? (H L Mencken Quotes)
The only time you have a free press is when you own one (H L Mencken Quotes)
Change is not progress (H L Mencken Quotes)
I’m thoroughly convinced that editors don’t help authors (H L Mencken Quotes)
The worst government is the most moral (H L Mencken Quotes)
The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass (H L Mencken Quotes)
Love begins like a triolet and ends like a college yell (H L Mencken Quotes)
It costs more to maintain ten vices than one virtue (H L Mencken Quotes)
School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers (H L Mencken Quotes)
Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods (H L Mencken Quotes)
Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob’s fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans (H L Mencken Quotes)
Democratic man can understand the aims and aspirations of capitalism; they are, greatly magnified, simply his own aims and aspirations (H L Mencken Quotes)
Democracy, in fact, is always inventing class distinctions, despite its theoretical abhorrence of them (H L Mencken Quotes)
It is highly probable that the first priest appeared to the world simultaneously with the first religion; nay, that he actually invented it (H L Mencken Quotes)
It may be that there are magicians who are not also priests, but it would be hard to find a priest who is not, in some sense, a magician (H L Mencken Quotes)
I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it (H L Mencken Quotes)
Nietzsche, an infinitely harder and more courageous intellect, was incapable of any such confusion of ideas; he seldom allowed sentimentality to turn him from the glaring fact (H L Mencken Quotes)
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it (H L Mencken Quotes)
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists (H L Mencken Quotes)
My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes without having a single original thought (H L Mencken Quotes)
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 (H L Mencken Quotes)
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous (H L Mencken Quotes)
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark (H L Mencken Quotes)
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart (H L Mencken Quotes)
The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother’s milk (H L Mencken Quotes)
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic asylum (H L Mencken Quotes)
In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished (H L Mencken Quotes)
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion (H L Mencken Quotes)
What democracy needs most of all is a party that will separate the good that is in it theoretically from the evils that beset it practically, and then try to erect that good into a workable system (H L Mencken Quotes)