"The first kiss is stolen by the man;……" — H. L. Mencken
"The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman."
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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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It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the fall, Adam and Eve had…
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I lost my faith in God when I lost my daughter to Cancer, the beast. I begged, I cried, I…
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The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed,…
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I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play…
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I once picked up a woman from a garbage dump and she was burning with fever; she was in her…
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I know from my constituency what is going on. Doctors that are told, begged, by mothers, 'Please don't write down…
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Love shouldn't make a beggar of one. I wouldn't want love if I had to beg for it, to barter…
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