Top 150 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

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

Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.

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

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

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.