"Love: The delusion that one woman differs from…" — Henry Louis Mencken

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— Henry Louis Mencken

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58 Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken

Henry Louis Mencken has 58 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually…
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after…
The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which…
Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid,…
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young…
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics…
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the…
The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without…
The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose…
Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.
Government is a broker in pillage, and every election is sort of an advance auction sale of stolen goods.

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All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher. — Ambrose Bierce
When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and… — Jack Black
Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth. — Ludwig Borne
No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities. — Christian Nestell Bovee
The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion. — Edmund Burke
Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them. — Samuel Butler
There's always an element of self delusion among people who believe they ought to be President. There's an underestimation of… — Jimmy Carter
Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion. — Kim Cattrall
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities… — Alan Barth
But if thought is to become the possession of many, not the privilege of the few, we must have done… — Bertrand Russell
When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Praying which does not result in pure conduct is a delusion. We have missed the whole office and virtue of… — Edward McKendree Bounds

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