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Quotations by author » Henry Louis Mencken
American humorous Journalist and Critic of American life who influenced US fiction through the 1920s, 1880-1956
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
Love
Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop
Love
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Love
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
Love
Lying is not only excusable; it is not only innocent; it is, above all, necessary and unavoidable. Without the ameliorations that it offers, life would become a mere syllogism and hence too metallic to be borne.
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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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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
Men and Women
Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
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Many an American Congressman comes to Washington from a district attorney's office: you may be sure that he is seldom promoted because he has been jealous of the liberties of the citizen
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Marriage
Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
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Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.
MortalityWomen
Men are the only animals who devote themselves assiduously to making one another unhappy.
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Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt
Mankind
Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later; for another thing they die earlier
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Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible
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Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another
Mankind
Morality: The theory that every human act must either be right or wrong, and that 99% of them are wrong
Morality
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
ThinkingWriting
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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