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12663 quotesI confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
Democracy
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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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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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
Choice
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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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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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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Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
Temptation
H. L. Mencken
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Crime and Criminals
H. L. Mencken
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The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
Lies and Lying
H. L. Mencken
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The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
Power
H. L. Mencken
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There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
Books - Reading
H. L. Mencken
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To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.
Love
H. L. Mencken
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When women kiss it always reminds one of prize-fighters shaking hands.
Kisses and Kissing
H. L. Mencken
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Ignorance is like the itch -- the less you have of it the better off you are.
Ignorance
Harry Mendelson
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Attitudes are more important than facts.
Attitude
Karl A. Menninger
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Love cures people -- both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
Love
Karl A. Menninger
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One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.
Love
Karl A. Menninger
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Hate can only flourish where love is absent.
Hatred
William C. Menninger
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun