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作者：H L Mencken [全部名言]

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“Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.”

— H. L. Mencken · Laws

“An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.”

— H. L. Mencken · Idealism

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.”

— H. L. Mencken · Golf

“The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

— H. L. Mencken · Democracy

“Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.”

— H. L. Mencken · Taxes

“Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.”

— H. L. Mencken · Americans

“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

— H. L. Mencken · Age

“It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

“I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.”

— H. L. Mencken · Government

“A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.”

— H. L. Mencken · Celebrities

“Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.”

— H. L. Mencken · Democracy

“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”

— H. L. Mencken · Boredom

“It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.”

— H. L. Mencken · No category

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

— H. L. Mencken · Lies