Thanksgiving Quote H L Mencken
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
H. L. MenckenGiving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
H. L. MenckenTo die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
H. L. MenckenLove: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. MenckenFaith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. MenckenWhen women kiss, it always reminds me of prizefighters shaking hands.
H. L. MenckenJury: a group of twelve men who, having lied to the judge about their hearing, health and business engagements, have failed to fool him.
H. L. MenckenImagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
H. L. MenckenNo man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. MenckenNobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
H. L. MenckenEvery man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
H. L. MenckenIt is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. MenckenThere 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. MenckenNo 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. MenckenHenry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard.
H. L. MenckenAdultery is the application of democracy to love.
H. L. MenckenAll government, of course, is against liberty.
H. L. MenckenTemptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
H. L. MenckenMen have a much better time of it than women; for one thing, they marry later; for another thing they die earlier.
H. L. MenckenConscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends
H. L. Mencken
