"The only really happy folk are married women…" — H. L. Mencken
"The only really happy folk are married women and single men."
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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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More Folk Quotes
This quote is filed under Folk Quotes,
one of 496 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.
— Johann Sebastian Bach
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If people have to put labels on me, I'd prefer the first label to be human being, the second label…
— Joan Baez
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Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Everything that has ever been called folk art has always reflected domination.
— Theodor Adorno
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What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes…
— Bono
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Civilization is a conspiracy. Modern life is the silent compact of comfortable folk to keep up pretences.
— John Buchan
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Real popular culture is folk art - coalminers' songs and so forth.
— Noam Chomsky
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When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk…
— Ian Anderson
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Princess Rose should indeed be a TV movie, assuming something doesn't go wrong. I don't know how good a movie…
— Piers Anthony
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I play for the poor man. I try to give a thrill to the lunch bucket fan. I know their…
— Unknown Author
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One of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their…
— H. L. Mencken
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