Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. -H. L. Mencken Religion
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -H. L. Mencken Men
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. -H. L. Mencken Truth
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 Great
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. -H. L. Mencken Relationship
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H. L. Mencken Truth
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 Friendship
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. -H. L. Mencken Wisdom
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. -H. L. Mencken Women
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. -H. L. Mencken Government
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. -H. L. Mencken Women
