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Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
«A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
after, all fours, direction, drinks, drink up, four, Hers, kisses, loses, on all fours, sense, sense of direction
«Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
boast, boasted, head, Head On, looking, looking for, put, shoulder, shouldered, shoulder in
«Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
Begin, easy, Easy to Love, hard, In Love and War, stop, war
«Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Love
| Keywords:
imagination, intelligence, the Triumphs, triumph, triumphed, triumphing
«The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Failure,
Religion,
Theory
| Keywords:
Child of God, devil, soon, succeeds, taken, taken over, theory, the Devil
«Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Conscience
| Keywords:
conscience, inner, somebody, The Warning, voice, voice of conscience, warns
«You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
come into, out of nothing, purpose
«On one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
agree, agreeing, at issue, at least, both, distrust, distrusted, distrusts, issue, issuing, least, take issue
«Church: A place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to people who will never get there»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| Keywords:
brag, bragged, bragging, brags, Church A, gentlemen
