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We have a collection of 12 Men quotes from H L Mencken

"Honor is simply the morality of superior men." (ID 43699)


"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too." (ID 43807)


"Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love." (ID 44109)


"There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor." (ID 44259)


"The only really happy folk are married women and single men." (ID 44274)


"It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously." (ID 44281)


"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." (ID 44348)


"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." (ID 44376)


"Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier." (ID 44495)


"Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience." (ID 44501)


"What men value in this world is not rights but privileges." (ID 44611)


"To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!" (ID 44635)


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