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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for someone to complain to. - [Boasting] Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt. - [Civilization] Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later; for another thing they die earlier. - [Men] Mencken's Law: Whenever A annoys or injures B on the pretense of improving or saving X, A is a scoundrel. - [Laws of Life and Nature] Neither sex, without some fertilization of the complimentary characters of the other, is capable of the highest reaches of human endeavor. - [Capacity] No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion. - [Knowledge] No man is genuinely happy, married, who has to drink worse whiskey than he used to drink when he was single. - [Wine and Spirits] Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient. - [Death] One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top, there is no limit to repression. - [Government] One seldom discovers a true believer that is worth knowing. - [Belief] One yearns unspeakably for a composer who gives out his pair of honest themes, and then develops them unashamed, and then hangs a brisk coda to them, and then shuts up. - [Composers] Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth. - [Democracy] Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it. - [Philosophy] Poetry has done enough when it charms, but prose must also convince. - [Poetry] Puritanism--The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. - [Puritanism] Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it. - [Remorse] School teachers, taking them by and large, are probably the most ignorant and stupid class of men in the whole group of mental workers. - [Teachers] 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. - [Marriage] Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives. - [Suicide] Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body. - [Temptation] The average schoolmaster is, and always must be, an ass. - [Teachers] The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. - [Books] The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. - [Money] The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. - [Crime] The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible. - [Credulity] Displaying page 3 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 [3] 4 5
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