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“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“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 · No category

“Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.”

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“Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.”

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“Judge: a law student who marks his own papers.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“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 · No category

“Any man who, having a child or children he can't support, proceeds to have another should be sterilized at once.”

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“The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.”

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“Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Congress consists of one third, more or less, scoundrels; two thirds, more or less, idiots; and three thirds, more or less, poltroons.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Criticism is prejudice made plausible.”

— H. L. Mencken · Criticism

“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”

— H. L. Mencken · Men And Women

“To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!”

— H. L. Mencken · Ideas