"A poet more than thirty years old is……" — H. L. Mencken
"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."
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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site.
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A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
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Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
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When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
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People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
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Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
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The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
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Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
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To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
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I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
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Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a…
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I was born into a Christian family and brought up in a Lutheran church. My faith has been the center…
— Michele Bachmann
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In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar…
— Enid Bagnold
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A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.
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There is a 'sanctity' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of…
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Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.
— Honore de Balzac
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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When I gave birth to my fourth child, I suffered from post partum hemorrhaging. I almost lost my life. I…
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It's not like I want to hop on a bandwagon, because I said it 15 years ago - bringing a…
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