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H. L. Mencken Quotes: 6

  • Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  • The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  • There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

  • Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

  • Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  • 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.