“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.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: truth
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The whole aim of practical politics is
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: politics
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The chief value of money lies in
“The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.”
— H. L. Mencken
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War will never cease until babies begin
“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: war
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The older I grow the more I
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
— H. L. Mencken
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Category: wisdom
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Men have a much better time of
“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.”
— H. L. Mencken
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Category: marriage
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Strike an average between what a woman
“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.”
— H. L. Mencken
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Category: marriage
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the
“Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: wisdom
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Men have a much better time of
“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.”
— H. L. Mencken
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Category: women
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It is impossible to imagine the universe
“It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.”
— H. L. Mencken
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Category: imagination
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Women always excel men in that sort
“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
— H. L. Mencken
Author: H. L. Mencken
Category: women
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