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Much Quotes by H. L. Mencken
- As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far…
- Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid. They know one…
- No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.
- The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is…
- I drink exactly as much as I want, and one drink more.
- The State is not force alone. It depends upon the credulity of man quite as much as upon his docility. Its aim is not merely…
- I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.
- All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: it's one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him.... One of…
- War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net…
- The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they…
- The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow…
- College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more interesting if the…
- The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a…
- Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
- Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
- Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the…
- To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
- Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
- There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on…
- School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances,…
- Consider... the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary,…
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