#wi

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

#better #cabbage #concludes #idealist #make

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#dollars #hundred #husband #income #least

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#average #average american #formerly #got #much

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner's inquest. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#coroner #discuss #evidence #giving #husband

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#every #every man #free #giving #good

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

— H. L. Mencken

#always #comes #excel #experience #itself

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#explain #knowing #terms #theology #unknowable

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

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

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#born #die #long #man #she