Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H.L. MenckenMots clés love-war
Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
H.L. MenckenMots clés lawyer
In the duel of sex, woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.
H.L. MenckenOn one issue, at least, men and women agree: they both distrust women.
H.L. MenckenMots clés women
The allurement that women hold out to men is precisely the allurement that Cape Hatteras holds out to sailors: they are enormously dangerous and hence enormously fascinating.
H.L. MenckenMisogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
H.L. MenckenMots clés definitions misogyny
The opera…is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
H.L. MenckenMots clés opera
The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist, the courage of a rat, the fairness of a prohibitionist boob-jumper, the information of a high school janitor, the taste of a designer of celluloid valentines, and the honor of a police-station lawyer.
H.L. MenckenMots clés newspapers
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
H.L. MenckenMots clés poets
It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true it would not be a proof that religion is true. That would be an extension of pragmatism beyond endurance. Santa Claus makes children good in precisely the same way, and yet no one would argue seriously that the fact proves his existence. The defense of religion is full of such logical imbecilities. The theologians, taking one with another, are adept logicians, but every now and then they have to resort to sophistries so obvious that their whole case takes on an air of the ridiculous. Even the most logical religion starts out with patently false assumptions. It is often argued in support of this or that one that men are so devoted to it that they are willing to die for it. That, of course, is as silly as the Santa Claus proof. Other men are just as devoted to manifestly false religions, and just as willing to die for them. Every theologian spends a large part of his time and energy trying to prove that religions for which multitudes of honest men have fought and died are false, wicked, and against God.
H.L. MenckenMots clés humor truth honesty existence energy morality death atheism endurance martyr wicked logic santa-claus assumptions devotion argument sacrifice false value proof ridiculous support santa pragmatism imbecility sophistry logicians theologians
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