Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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 or chemistry. "
H. L. Mencken
Now
Chemistry
Mathematics
Related Quotes:
" Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. "
H. L. Mencken
Other
Like
Up
" No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. "
H. L. Mencken
Money
People
Great
" 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. "
H. L. Mencken
Truth
Anniversary
Husband
" One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. "
H. L. Mencken
Live
Hell
Will
" 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
Two
Never
New
" 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
" 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
Most
True
Occupation
" Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. "
H. L. Mencken
Legend
Lie
Age
" On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. "
H. L. Mencken
Reach
White
Heart
" No 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. Mencken
Woman
Always
Man
" Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. "
H. L. Mencken
Mother-In-Law
Visit
Never
" Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. "
H. L. Mencken
Government
Democracy
Science
" No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single. "
H. L. Mencken
Worse
Single
Used
" I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. "
H. L. Mencken
Until
Smoked
Nine
" The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable. "
H. L. Mencken
Most
Man
Dangerous
" For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. "
H. L. Mencken
Wrong
Simple
Problem
" Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. "
H. L. Mencken
Beautiful
Very
Machine
" Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. "
H. L. Mencken
Christ
Superior
Rank
" Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. "
H. L. Mencken
Temptation
Man
Excuse
" If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. "
H. L. Mencken
Me
Thought
You
" 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
" Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. "
H. L. Mencken
Who
Better
Immorality
" Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. "
H. L. Mencken
Alimony
Pay
Happy
" Most people want security in this world, not liberty. "
H. L. Mencken
Want
People
Liberty
" 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
" God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. "
H. L. Mencken
Afraid
Audience
God
" The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. "
H. L. Mencken
Aim
Safety
Practical
" No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. "
H. L. Mencken
Long
Average
Matter
" I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. "
H. L. Mencken
Go
Reason
Same
" A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. "
H. L. Mencken
Examination
Judge
Student