"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse." — H. L. Mencken

"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."

— 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 Excuse Quotes

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Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of… — Hannah Arendt
A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would… — Mikhail Bakunin
Excuse the mess but we live here. — Roseanne Barr
Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself. — Henry Ward Beecher
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. — Henry Ward Beecher
Destiny: A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure. — Ambrose Bierce
Bacchus, n.: A convenient deity invented by the ancients as an excuse for getting drunk. — Ambrose Bierce
Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals. — William Blake
Any excuse will serve a tyrant. — Aesop
The politics of partisanship and the resulting inaction and excuses have paralyzed decision-making, primarily at the federal level, and the… — Michael Bloomberg
I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse… — Alain de Botton
The financial crisis should not become an excuse to raise taxes, which would only undermine the economic growth required to… — George W. Bush

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