Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
Henry Louis Mencken
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
Henry Louis Mencken
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
Henry Louis Mencken
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
Henry Louis Mencken
Love is the delusion that one man or woman differs from another.
Henry Louis Mencken
Love Quotes
In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
Henry Louis Mencken
We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
Henry Louis Mencken
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.
Henry Louis Mencken
Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
Henry Louis Mencken
A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.
Henry Louis Mencken
The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
Henry Louis Mencken
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
Henry Louis Mencken
Love Quotes
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
Henry Louis Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Louis Mencken
Love Quotes
Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.
Henry Louis Mencken
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.