"Old age ain't no place for sissies." — Henry Louis Mencken

"Old age ain't no place for sissies."

— 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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More Age Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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