Friday 11 September 2015

12th September: H.L. Mencken

HL Mencken, US writer, born this date in 1880. 10 quotes from him:


  1. There is always an easy solution to every problem — neat, plausible and wrong.
  2. Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't they'd be married, too.
  3. Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
  4. Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
  5. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
  6. 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.
  7. The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
  8. Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.
  9. It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
  10. No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

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