| 56 Famous Quotes by H. L. Mencken
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“Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.”
God Quotes |
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“Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
Government Quotes |
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“As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. -H. L. Mencken.”
Heart-quotes Quotes |
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“As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. thanks to Alan Bennett -H. L. Mencken.”
Heart-quotes Quotes |
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“One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.”
Laughter Quotes |
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“I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.”
Liberty Quotes |
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“Life is a dead-end street.”
Life Quotes |
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“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.”
Love Quotes |
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“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -H. L. Mencken.”
Love Quotes |
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“To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.”
Love Quotes |
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“The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.”
Lying Quotes |
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“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.”
Marriage Quotes |
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“If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.”
Marriage Quotes |
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“No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.”
Marriage Quotes |
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“On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.”
Men and women Quotes |
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“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
Men and women Quotes |
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“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.”
Men and women Quotes |
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“It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.”
Men and women Quotes |
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“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.”
Money Quotes |
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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.”
Pleasure Quotes |
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“Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God.”
Progress Quotes |
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“It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.”
Rebellion Quotes |
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“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes |
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“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.”
Religion / beliefs Quotes |
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“Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.”
Remorse Quotes |
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