#eve

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

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#either #every #human #morality #must

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

— H. L. Mencken

#average woman #becomes #ever #how #lives

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

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#believed #deal #foolish #good #good deal

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#believe #descended #hard #man

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#average #believe #descended #even #harder

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

— H. L. Mencken

#any #believe #believes #ever #idea