The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. MENCKENAlways remember this: If you don’t attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
More H. L. Mencken Quotes
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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
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Free speech is too dangerous to a democracy to be permitted.
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People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
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Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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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.
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There are two impossibilities in life: “just one drink” and “an honest politician.”
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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There’s really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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There is no idea so stupid that you can’t find a professor who will believe it.
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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.
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Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence she finds it almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on listening without snickering.
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