H. L. Mencken Quotes

H. L. Mencken Quotes.

A man always remembers his first love with special tend

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
H. L. Mencken
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
H. L. Mencken
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
H. L. Mencken
We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
H. L. Mencken
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
H. L. Mencken
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
H. L. Mencken
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
H. L. Mencken
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
H. L. Mencken
When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.
H. L. Mencken
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H. L. Mencken
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
H. L. Mencken
There are men so philosophical that they can see humor

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.
H. L. Mencken
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
H. L. Mencken