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Famous H. L. Mencken Quotes
“Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.”
“It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”
“Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.”
“A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”
“The only really happy folk are married women and single men.”
“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.”
“Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.”
“No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.”
“A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”
“Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.”
“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”
“All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.”
“What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”
“A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.”
“A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.”
“In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.”
“I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.”
“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”
“Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.”
“A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.”
“Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.”