H. L. Mencken Quote Explained: No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

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A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

- H. L. Mencken

Political

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In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

- H. L. Mencken

Fight
Sex

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If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

- H. L. Mencken

Achieve

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Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

- H. L. Mencken

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To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

- H. L. Mencken

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Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

- H. L. Mencken

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Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn’t believe he is dead

- H. L. Mencken

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There is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

- H. L. Mencken

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft.

If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies.

Culture itself is neither education nor law-making: it is an atmosphere and a heritage.

To denounce moralizing out of hand is to pronounce a moral judgment.

Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.

Immortality is the condition of a dead man who doesn’t believe he is dead

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain

There’s no such thing as autobiography, there’s only art and lies

What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. Explain

A man has made great progress in cunning when he does not seem too clever to others. Explain

The art of love is to embrace the world and that which lies beyond it. Explain

Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect. Explain

A heap of epithets is poor praise: the praise lies in the facts, and in the way of telling them. Explain

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

No man of honor ever quite lives up to his code, any more than a moral man manages to avoid sin.

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