"One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms." — H. L. Mencken

"One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms."

— H. L. Mencken

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647 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

H. L. Mencken has 647 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought.
Religion deserves no more respect than a pile of garbage.
When I die, I shall be content to vanish into nothingness.... No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever…
People say we need religion when what they really mean is we need police.
Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he…
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God…
The Old Testament, as everyone who has looked into it is aware, drips with blood; there is, indeed, no more…
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong...
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services…
Goverment is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…

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More Horse Quotes

This quote is filed under Horse Quotes, one of 1,933 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines… — Karen Armstrong
All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song. — Louis Armstrong
If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider. — Saint Augustine
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a… — Marcus Aurelius
My mom never taught me to be waiting for some prince on a white horse to swipe me off my… — Tyra Banks
The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win. — Joey Adams
Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order. — John Adams
Competitions are for horses, not artists. — Bela Bartok
A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it… — Johnny Bench
I had the best buffalo horse that ever made a track. — Buffalo Bill

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