Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
H. L. Mencken

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
H. L. Mencken

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
H. L. Mencken

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. Mencken

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. Mencken

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

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken

Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
H. L. Mencken

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H. L. Mencken

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H. L. Mencken

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
H. L. Mencken

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. Mencken

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
H. L. Mencken

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.
H. L. Mencken

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
H. L. Mencken

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
H. L. Mencken

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
H. L. Mencken

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
H. L. Mencken