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69 quotes (Page 2 of 3 pages)I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
Democracy
H. L. Mencken
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I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
Action
H. L. Mencken
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If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself.
Marriage
H. L. Mencken
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
Heroes and Heroism
H. L. Mencken
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.
Justice
H. L. Mencken
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It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.
Belief
H. L. Mencken
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It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.
Evolution
H. L. Mencken
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It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
Certainty
H. L. Mencken
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Legend : a lie that has attained the dignity of age.
Legend
H. L. Mencken
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Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.
Colleges and Universities
H. L. Mencken
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
Choice
H. L. Mencken
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Life is a dead-end street.
Life and Living
H. L. Mencken
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Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
Love
H. L. Mencken
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Love
H. L. Mencken
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
Humankind
H. L. Mencken
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Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
Men and Women
H. L. Mencken
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
Safety
H. L. Mencken
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No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Wisdom
H. L. Mencken
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No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
Farming and Farmers
H. L. Mencken
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On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.
Agreement
H. L. Mencken
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Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Opera
H. L. Mencken
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Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Puritans
H. L. Mencken
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Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
Remorse
H. L. Mencken
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Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
Self-respect
H. L. Mencken
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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
Temptation
H. L. Mencken
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun