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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

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

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

H. L. Mencken

Roses

Will

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

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

Man

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.

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

H. L. Mencken

Man

Woman

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.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.