The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt. - (Mencken, H. L. - Abuse)

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. - (Mencken, H. L. - Action)

Adultery is the application of democracy to love. - (Mencken, H. L. - Adultery)

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - (Mencken, H. L. - Age and Aging)

On one issue at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women. - (Mencken, H. L. - Agreement)

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank. - (Mencken, H. L. - Alcohol and Alcoholism)

Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. - (Mencken, H. L. - Alimony)

Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives. - (Mencken, H. L. - Bachelor)

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too. - (Mencken, H. L. - Bachelor)

It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin. - (Mencken, H. L. - Bachelor)

It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake. - (Mencken, H. L. - Belief)

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry. - (Mencken, H. L. - Birth Control)

The chief knowledge that a man gets from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading. - (Mencken, H. L. - Books - Reading)

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. - (Mencken, H. L. - Books - Reading)

There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing. - (Mencken, H. L. - Books - Reading)