Seth Messenger : Henri Louis Mencken's quotes

Henri Louis Mencken said :

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Henri Louis Mencken
(Quotes)
#24145
An optimist is one who buys from a Jew and wants to sell to a Scotsman.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24146
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy also.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24147
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24148
The main contribution of Protestantism to human thought is massive evidence of boredom that gives off God.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24149
A war leaves the country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24150
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks for where the coffin.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24151
Consciousness is a mother-in-law coming never to you.

Henri Louis Mencken
(A Mencken Chrestomathy)


#24152
Sunday: the day was left to the Americans to believe in heaven while their neighbors are in hell.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24153
The man is inconsolable because he knows that he will die in a short time, the wife is inconsolable because what knows she was born a long time ago.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24154
Consciousness is like a mother-in-law who would always be behind you.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24155
I believe that to live long, he must resolve never stand to something that can be done sitting and never to sat something that can be done lying down.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24156
The progress is the process by which man has removed the whiskers, Appendix and God.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24157
Die for an idea, it's noble without a doubt. But how much more noble if men were dying for real ideas!

Henri Louis Mencken
(Préjugés)


#24158
Poverty puts a mute to all human activities, including that of the spirit.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Un livre de préfaces)


#24159
It is now almost allowed for a Catholic to use mathematics to avoid being pregnant, but it is still prohibited to use physics and chemistry.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Notebooks)


#24160
A good share of altruism, even perfectly honest, is based on the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people around you.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24161
The only character that distinguishes man from other higher vertebrates is excessive shyness, his ability to be alarmed, and his inability to embark on the adventure without a crowd behind him.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Défense des femmes)


#24162
The misfortune of the man and the cause of nearly all its calamities is his prodigious ability to believe in the impossible.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Défense des femmes)


#24163
Progress exists, that's for sure. The average American now paying in taxes twice what he had before as a salary.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24164
Dermatology is the best of the specialities: the patient never dies and does not heal.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24165
A Greek teacher is someone who knows a little Greek and nothing else.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24166
Men know better organize their lives than women: they marry later and die earlier.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24167
Men and women are at least agree on one point: they have no confidence in women.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24168
Opera in English, it is just as moving as baseball in Italian.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24169
For every problem there is a solution that is simple, clear and wrong.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24170
The main interest of money is that we live in a world where its value is overrated.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24171
When a diplomat says 'yes', it means 'maybe'. When he said 'maybe', it means 'no'; and when he says 'no', is not a diplomat.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24172
Puritanism is the terrible fear that someone could be happy somewhere.

Henri Louis Mencken
(American Mercury)


#24173
It is in the probability that a thousand things happen which are contrary to the probability.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24174
A celebrity is a person who is known to many people she's happy not knowing.

Henri Louis Mencken
(A book of burlesques)


#24175
An idealist is someone who, noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will make a better soup.

Henri Louis Mencken
(A book of burlesques)


#24176
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that there may be someone watching us.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24177
Heredity, it is what is believed a man until his son becomes a delinquent.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24178
So glad that is a woman with her husband, she always learn with pleasure that another man would that she isn't.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24179
Freedom really want the simple man, is the one to resign from his job, bathe in the Sun and is scratch where it itches.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24180
Faith: an absurd belief in the possibility of the improbable.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24181
The Church is the place where people who have never been to heaven sold it to others who will never go.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24182
There are politicians who, if their constituents were cannibals, their promising missionaries for dinner.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24183
The only truly happy people are married women and single men.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24184
It is a sin to think ill of others, but it is rarely a mistake.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


#24185
Metaphysics is to try to prove the incredible by appealing to the unintelligible.

Henri Louis Mencken
(Source inconnue)


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The content of this page was last u p d a t ed on Saturday January 7, 2023.
It was then 19:01:26 (Paris time, France, planet Earth - Known Universe).
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