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.
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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On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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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.
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The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
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Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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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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A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and the truth in front of patriotic passion.
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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.
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Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.
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The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.
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The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.
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Don’t overestimate the decency of the human race.
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Journalism is to politician as dog is to lamp-post.
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The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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