#d

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#attained #christ #christian #rank #superior

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#good #husbands #merely #never #proficient

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#i #never #nine #smoked #until

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#attain #cow #enjoys #feeling #function

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#arts #discovered #error #exposed #life

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#go #go to hell #hell #live #may

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#fact #lies #lives #money #overestimated

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#chief #costly #follies #mankind #most

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#fighters #hands #kiss #prize #reminds

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#fleas #must #professor #theory