Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

— H. L. Mencken

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later. For another thing they die earlier.

— H. L. Mencken

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.

— H. L. Mencken

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

— H. L. Mencken

No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.

— H. L. Mencken

No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.

— H. L. Mencken

Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.

— H. L. Mencken

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

— H. L. Mencken

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

— H. L. Mencken

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

— H. L. Mencken