Quotes of Henry Louis Mencken - somelinesforyou

“ Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull. It is the sex instinct which makes women seem beautiful, which they are once in a blue moon, and men seem wise and brave, which they never are at all. Throttle it, denaturalize it, take it away, and human existence would be reduced to the prosaic, laborious, boresome, imbecile level of life in an anthill. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ The Liberals have many tails, and chase them all. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing. ”

- Henry Louis 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. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken

“ 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. ”

- Henry Louis Mencken
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