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Category: H.L. Mencken

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

Man, Lie, Believe

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Happy, Be Happy, Somewhere

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

Man, Safety, Unknown

God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Laugh, Afraid, Audience

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.

Politics, I Am, World

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.

Truth, Woman, Husband

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Wisdom, Experience, Woman

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

Trust, Good, Foolish

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Love, Children, Simple

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

Happy, Men, Single

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

Marriage, Men, Know

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Communism, Up, Like