Tag: H.L. Mencken

Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.