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Henry Louis Mencken famous quotes, aphorisms and thoughts part 2 by the World of English blog and Carl William Brown<\/span><\/p>\n

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.<\/span>
\nH.L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Religion is a conceited effort to deny the most obvious realities.<\/span>
\nH.L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.<\/span>
\nH.L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed- and hence clamorous to be led to safety- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.<\/span>
\nH.L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. No one in this world, so far as I know – and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me – has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.<\/span>
\nH.L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.<\/span>
\nH. L. Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn’t care to drink with, even if he drank.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Every man is his own hell.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Archbishop – A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Time stays, we go.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.<\/span>
\nHenry Louis Mencken<\/span><\/p>\n

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