H. L. Mencken Quotes

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. - H. L. Mencken

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

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. - H. L. Mencken

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest. - H. L. Mencken

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges. - H. L. Mencken

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom. - 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

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess. - H. L. Mencken

Time stays, we go. - H. L. Mencken

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. - H. L. Mencken

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