Henry Louis Mencken
b. 1880; d. 1956
Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist
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tiny.ag/rqul7ovr · ★★☆☆ Fair (156 ratings) · submitted 1997
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
tiny.ag/kqr3auag · ★★☆☆ Fair (145 ratings) · submitted 1997
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
tiny.ag/oujtda0e · ★★☆☆ Fair (290 ratings) · submitted 1997
Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.
tiny.ag/tnirgb8y · ★★☆☆ Fair (187 ratings) · submitted 1997
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.
tiny.ag/jwmd8ebc · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
tiny.ag/jcmyu3ji · ★★☆☆ Fair (152 ratings) · submitted 1997
Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
tiny.ag/yosfdtrk · ★★☆☆ Fair (172 ratings) · submitted 1997
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
tiny.ag/o6zxkels · ★★☆☆ Fair (158 ratings) · submitted 1997
Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.
tiny.ag/7gz85bqy · ★★☆☆ Fair (179 ratings) · submitted 1997
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
tiny.ag/b4tuds1y · ★★☆☆ Fair (192 ratings) · submitted 1997
There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
Henry Louis Mencken, in Altruism and Cynicism and Science and Religion
tiny.ag/wyl7j4bs · ★★☆☆ Fair (137 ratings) · submitted 1997
Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.
tiny.ag/tg5j4hni · ★★☆☆ Fair (157 ratings) · submitted 1997
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
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