There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

Topics: Happiness Quotes, Impulses Quotes

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins...

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins...

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full...

School days are the unhappiest in the whole span if human existence. They are full...

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war...

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war...

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to...

The way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to...

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

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...

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice...

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice...

The more a man dreams, the less he believes

The more a man dreams, the less he believes

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents

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

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

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the...

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the...

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading...

Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business...

Perhaps the most revolting character that the United States ever produced was the Christian business...

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out...

Good government is that which delivers the citizen from the risk of being done out...

The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always...

The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always...

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,...

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if...

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if...

But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and...

But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and...

People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.

People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.