"Men are sad because they have to die……" — Henry Louis Mencken

"Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago."

— 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…
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
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.

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