Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. "
H. L. Mencken
Man
Sex
Open
Related Quotes:
" The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. "
H. L. Mencken
World
Fact
Lies
" Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. "
H. L. Mencken
Done
Must
Poetry
" 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
See
Own
Never
" In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one. "
H. L. Mencken
Veterans Day
Soldiers
War
" A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. "
H. L. Mencken
Animal
Sit
Ground
" Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. "
H. L. Mencken
Relationship
Man
Cousins
" Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. "
H. L. Mencken
Temptation
Man
Excuse
" It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. "
H. L. Mencken
Sound
Rebellion
Only
" We must be willing to pay a price for freedom. "
H. L. Mencken
Must
Price
Willing
" All government, of course, is against liberty. "
H. L. Mencken
Course
Liberty
Government
" Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. "
H. L. Mencken
Heaven
Only
Democracy
" As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. "
H. L. Mencken
Grow
Grows
Heart
" Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. "
H. L. Mencken
Worship
Democracy
Also
" A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. "
H. L. Mencken
Theory
Professor
Dog
" The worst government is often 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. "
H. L. Mencken
Moral
Government
Limit
" 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. "
H. L. Mencken
Man
Place
Lie
" The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. "
H. L. Mencken
Moral
Honor
Difference
" Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. "
H. L. Mencken
Women
Wisdom
Men
" To 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. Mencken
Men
Much
True
" The cynics are right nine times out of ten. "
H. L. Mencken
Times
Ten
Right
" What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. "
H. L. Mencken
World
Value
Rights
" It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. "
H. L. Mencken
Impossible
Imagine
Good
" The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence. "
H. L. Mencken
Evidence
Hear
Never
" A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank. "
H. L. Mencken
Drink
Even
Man
" The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore. "
H. L. Mencken
Proof
God
Thought
" 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
Better
Women
Time
" Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. "
H. L. Mencken
Progress
American
Average
" Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. "
H. L. Mencken
Sister
Year
Wife
" Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. "
H. L. Mencken
Government
Democracy
Science
" Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. "
H. L. Mencken
Stolen
Election
Auction