That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the human race to argue that women have a fine and fluent intelligence is surely an eloquent proof of the defective observation, incurable prejudice, and general…

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

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

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

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his...

Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his...

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia -...

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia -...

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

Morality is nothing but a struggle for safety

An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to...

An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to...

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia,...

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia,...

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry...

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry...

The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist,...

The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist,...

Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character.

Intelligence has been commoner among American Presidents than high character.

Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that...

Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that...

Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit -...

Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit -...

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really...

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really...

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its...

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he...

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he...

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production...

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production...

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Science is for those who learn; poetry, for those who know.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another.