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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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We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion,but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Religion
We suffer most when the White House busts with ideas
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Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.
Wealth
What ass first let lose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege? Looking back over my 19 years (of it) I can recall few times when I have voted with anything approaching exhilaration
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What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: he gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell
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What men value in this world is not rights but privileges
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What restrains us from killing is partly fear of punishment, partly moral scruple, and partly what may be described as a sense of humor
FearMoralityPunishmentSense of humor
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
Taxation
When I hear artists and authors making fun of business men I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks
Art
When I mount the scaffold at last these will be my farewell words to the sheriff: Say what you will against me when I am gone, but don't forget to add, in common justice, that I was never converted to anything
Goodbye
When we appropriate money from the public funds to pay for vaccinating a horde of negroes, we do not do it because we have any sympathy for them or because we crave their blessings, but simply because we don't want them to be falling ill of smallpox
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When women kiss it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands
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When women kiss, it always reminds one of prizefighters shaking hands
KissingWomen
Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it
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Wherefore, Nietzsche concluded that the chief characteristic of a moral system was its tendency to perpetuate itself unchanged, and to destroy all who questioned it or denied it
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Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world
AutobiographyLiterature
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth
Life
You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing
Life
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