Love is the mistaken belief that one woman differs from another.
Henry Louis Mencken Quotations
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
A formula for answering controversial letters -- without even reading the letters Dear Sir (or Madame) You may be right.
Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of saving or improving X, A is a scoundrel.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
Legend a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Every man is his own hell.
Life is a dead-end street.
...the basic delusion that men may be governed and yet be free.
For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.
No man ever quite believes in any other man.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
For men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in their readiness to doubt.
Bachelors know more about women than married men if they didn't they'd be married too.
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
The only cure for contempt is countercontempt.
Love is the triump of imagination over intelligence.
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
Love is like war easy to begin but very hard to stop.
A man always blames the woman who fooled him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.