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Results of search for Author: H. L. Mencken - Page 2 of 11 Showing results 11 to 20 of 101 total quotations found.
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Results from Cole's Quotables:

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy

Results from Rand Lindsly's Quotations:

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebums and smaller adrenal glands.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.: H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

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