"Progress is the process whereby the human race……" — Henry Louis Mencken
"Progress is the process whereby the human race is getting rid of whiskers, the veriform appendix and God"
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58 Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
Henry Louis Mencken has 58 quotes on this site.
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually…
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Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after…
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Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another
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The surest way to get on in politics in America is to play the leading part in a prosecution which…
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Has the great art and mystery of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid,…
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young…
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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics…
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Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those…
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I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the…
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The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who Is able to think things out for himself, without…
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The kind of man who wants government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose…
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Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm.
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Everybody is afraid they won't have any money after they die, but Jack Benny discovered a way to take it…
— Bob Hope
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The thinnest I've ever been was after I had my appendix out, during the London run of The Seagull. I…
— Carey Mulligan
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Remarrying a husband you've divorced is like having your appendix put back in.
— Phyllis Diller
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I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music…
— Ray Charles
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Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man…
— Carl Jung
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Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix, and God.
— H. L. Mencken
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The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.
— Vasily Smyslov
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I remember burying a girl fourteen years of age who had died with a ruptured appendix... I buried a good…
— Tommy Douglas
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How's his appendix?""Like crap. They almost didn't catch it in time, and he's still doing the ass-plant in a hospital…
— Marjorie M. Liu
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Religion is like our appendix, a vestigial remnant from a primitive past. Perhaps in a few millennia the god of…
— Jeff Schweitzer
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Souls were the same. They, too, had useless baggage that impeded their proper performance, these annoying, holier-than-thou bits dangling like…
— J R Ward
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The pace of science forces the pace of technique. Theoretical physics forces atomic energy on us; the successful production of…
— Erich Fromm
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