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

— H. L. Mencken

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

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

— H. L. Mencken

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.

— H. L. Mencken

It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.

— H. L. Mencken

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

— H. L. Mencken

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

Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.

— H. L. Mencken