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H. L. Mencken Quotes - Page 25

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Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

Psychotherapy is the theory that the patient will probably get well anyhow and is certainly a damn fool.

Get Well, Fool, Patient

Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain.

Music, Rain, Two

History deals mainly with captains and kings, gods and prophets, exploiters and despoilers, not with useful men.

Kings, Men, History

Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

Fall, Passing Away, Tin

H. L. Mencken (1917). “A Book of Prefaces”

All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.

Zoos, Freedom, Political

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.365, Vintage

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. ... The aim of medicine is surely not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard them from the consequences of their vices.

Science, Men, Hygiene

H. L. Mencken (2009). “Prejudices: Third Series”, p.269, Cosimo, Inc.

The most common of all follies is to believe in the palpably untrue.

Believe, Common, Folly

In Baltimore, soft crabs are always fried (or broiled) in the altogether, with maybe a small jock-strap of bacon added.

Food, Cooking, Jocks

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

Funny, Marriage, Suicidal

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness

Conscience

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.35, Vintage

Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity.

Mediocrity, Literature, Remarkable

H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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

Love, Funny, Mistake

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.57, Vintage

No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then.

Giving, Liberty, Now And Then

Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people.

People, Jew

Suicide is a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.

Suicide, Wife, Acquiescence

A Little Book in C Major ch. 5 (1916)

High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with.

Suffering, Humanitarianism, Overestimate

Man makes love by braggadocio, and woman makes love by listening.

Women, Men, Making Love

Absence is the dark-room in which lovers develop negatives.

Dark, Rooms, Lovers

It is only doubt that creates.

Doubt

H. L. Mencken (2003). “The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche”, p.94, See Sharp Press

Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.

Love, Happiness, Anniversary

H.L. Mencken “A little book in C major”, Рипол Классик

In human history a moral victory is always a disaster, for it debauches and degrades both the victor and the vanquished.

Victory, Moral, Disaster

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.199, Vintage

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

Writing, Artist, Men

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.525, Vintage

A poet over 30 is pathetic

Poet, Pathetic

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

Kissing, Men, First Kiss

The Americans are the illegitimate children of the English.

Children, America, Illegitimate Child

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