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H. L. Mencken Quotes about Funny - Page 2

All H. L. Mencken Quotes Achievement Adultery Adventure Age Alcohol Arguing Art Atheism Atheist Beer Belief Business Change Character Children Choices College Comedy Common Sense Communism Conscience Conspiracy Cooking Country Courage Criticism Critics Culture Cynicism Death Democracy Determination Devil Difficulty Dignity Doubt Drinking Dying Earth Education Effort Ethics Evil Exercise Faith Fear Feelings Fighting Food Free Speech Freedom Funny quotes Genius Giving God Golf Happiness Hate Heart Heaven Hell History Home Honesty Honor House Humanity Husband Ignorance Imagination Inspirational Intelligence Intuition Journalism Joy Judging Justice Kissing Knowledge Language Laughter Learning Liberty Life Literature Logic Love Lying Marriage Military Money Moon Morality Music Nature Office Originality Passion Past Patriotism Peace Personality Philosophy Politics Pot Poverty Prejudice Progress Propaganda Quality Quitting Reading Religion Respect Revolution Running Safety School Science Science And Religion Skins Slavery Society Son Sports Struggle Stupidity Style Success Suffering Sunday Sympathy Teaching Temptation Time Today Tragedy Trust Truth Virtue Voting Waiting War Water Weakness Wife Wisdom Work Writing Youth

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

Funny, Philosophy, Science

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.55, Knopf

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

Funny, Life, Choices

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

Funny, Laughter, Humorous

A Little Book in C Major ch. 4 (1916)

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

Funny, Inspiring, Appreciation

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.616, Vintage

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

Funny, Book, Reading

"A little book in C major".

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

Funny, Money, Husband

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

Funny, Marriage, Suicidal

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

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

Funny, Husband, Wife

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.620, Vintage

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

Funny, Women, Humor

A Little Book in C Major ch. 6 (1916)

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.

Funny, Life, Success

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

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

Inspirational, Funny, Underdog

H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.622, Vintage

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of their most esteemed inventions have no other apparent purpose - for example, the dinner party of more than two, the epic poem, and the science of metaphysics.

Funny, Party, Humor

H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.68, Knopf

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

Funny, Book, Writing

Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop

Funny, Love Is, Darkness

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.

Funny, Life, Blessed

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

Funny, Music, House

1925 Letter to Isaac Goldberg.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Funny, Witty, Laughter

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

Funny, Freedom, Temptation

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