Quotes from Henry Louis Mencken

To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyond the reach of man

The only kind of freedom that the mob can imagine is freedom to annoy and oppress its betters, and that is precisely the kind that we mainly have

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier - and also a good deal more foolish.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

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

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers had, and all their disgust of emotion, and pride in self- reliance. He is led no longer by Davy Crocketts; he is led by cheer leaders, press agents, word mongers, uplifters

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another

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