H. L. Mencken Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

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

“It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.”

“There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.”

“The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.”

“Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.”

“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?”

“A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.”

“Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.”

“No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.”

“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”