More From H. L. Mencken
- "No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
- "Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."
- "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."
More In Men
- "I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."― Buddha
- "Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked."― Niccolo Machiavelli
- "Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men."― Douglas Bader