Quotes about H L Mencken

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that...

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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of...

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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average...

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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea...

#H L Mencken

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended...

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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

#H L Mencken

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and...

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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry...

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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born...

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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

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There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

#H L Mencken