Author Topic: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~ (Read 5385 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #45 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:46:31 AM »

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

MysteRy · « **Reply #46 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:46:58 AM »

I believe that all government is evil and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

MysteRy · « **Reply #47 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:47:25 AM »

For centuries theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

MysteRy · « **Reply #48 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:47:52 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #49 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:48:20 AM »

Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.

MysteRy · « **Reply #50 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:48:45 AM »

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

MysteRy · « **Reply #51 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:49:11 AM »

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

MysteRy · « **Reply #52 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:49:36 AM »

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

MysteRy · « **Reply #53 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:50:03 AM »

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.

MysteRy · « **Reply #54 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:50:29 AM »

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

MysteRy · « **Reply #55 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:50:56 AM »

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.

MysteRy · « **Reply #56 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:51:26 AM »

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

MysteRy · « **Reply #57 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:51:52 AM »

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later. For another thing they die earlier.

MysteRy · « **Reply #58 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:52:18 AM »

In the United States doing good has come to be like patriotism a favorite device of persons with something to sell.

MysteRy · « **Reply #59 on:** October 11, 2014, 11:52:40 AM »

The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the sun and scratch himself.

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