Romantic Quotes - Love Quotes
H L Mencken
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. -H.L. Mencken.
- By H L Mencken , on Truth
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- By H L Mencken , on Trust
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
- By H L Mencken , on
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a moveable body.
- By H L Mencken , on Temptation
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- By H L Mencken , on
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
- By H L Mencken , on
All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them.
- By H L Mencken , on Society
It is common to assume that human progress affects everyone- that even the dullest man, in these bright days, knows more than any man of, say, the Eighteenth Century, and is far more civilized. This assumption is quite erroneous...The great masses of men, even in this inspired republic, are precisely where the mob was at the dawn of history. They are ignorant, they are dishonest, they are cowardly, they are ignoble. They know little if anything that is worth knowing, and there is not the slightest sign of a natural desire among them to increase their knowledge.
- By H L Mencken , on Society
Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.
- By H L Mencken , on Society
Nature abhors a moron.
- By H L Mencken , on Society
