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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
H. L. Mencken
Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. Mencken
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. Mencken
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
H. L. Mencken
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
H. L. Mencken
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken
Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken
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.
H. L. Mencken
No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. Mencken
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H. L. Mencken
No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. Mencken
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken
No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H. L. Mencken
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken
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.
H. L. Mencken
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