Tag: H.L. Mencken

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

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

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.