Top 150 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

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

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

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

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

Time stays, we go.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.