Henry Louis Mencken Quotations

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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [History]

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [History]

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Golf]

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Random]

Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by schoolma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Grammar]

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Poetry]

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Marriage]

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Marriage]

Alimony - The ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Marriage]

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Marriage]

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Marriage]

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Marriage]

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Marriage]

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Marriage]

The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Marriage]

Immorality: The morality of those who are having a better time.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Perspective]

The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Perspective]

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Sports] [Games]

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Science]

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.
	- Henry Louis Mencken	more quotations on [Science]

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