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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

H. L. Mencken
Life, Food, Vegetables
H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.617, Vintage

All the charming and beautiful things, from the Song of Songs, to bouillabaisse, and from the nine Beethoven symphonies to the Martini cocktail, have been given to humanity by men who, when the hour came, turned from tap water to something with color in it, and more in it than mere oxygen and hydrogen.

H. L. Mencken
Beautiful, Song, Food

Anyhow, the hole in the donut is at least digestible.

H. L. Mencken
Food, Holes, Donuts

I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

H. L. Mencken
Food, Drinking, Dark
New York Post 18 Sept. 1945

As long as you represent me as praising alcohol I shall not complain. It is, I believe, the greatest of human inventions, and by far - much greater than Hell, the radio or the bichloride tablet.

H. L. Mencken
Believe, Food, Long

All the great villainies of history, from the murder of Abel onward, have been perpetrated by sober men, chiefly by Teetotalers.

H. L. Mencken
Food, Men, Cooking

How do they taste? They taste like more.

H. L. Mencken
Food, Cooking, Taste

I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.

H. L. Mencken
Dog, Food, Differences

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

H. L. Mencken
Food, Cooking, Jocks

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

H. L. Mencken
Drinking, Food, Men

It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.

H. L. Mencken
Food, Land, Pork
H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.11, 谷月社

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