Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [181-200] of 386 Humor quotesHumor QuotesHumor Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook.~ Groucho Marx Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.~ Groucho Marx The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.~ Groucho Marx It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.~ William Gibbs McAdoo Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.~ Eugene McCarthy I’m going to introduce a resolution to have the postmaster general stop reading dirty books and deliver the mail.~ Gail W. McGee I think the world is run by 'C' students.~ Al McGuire It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.~ H. L. Mencken No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.~ H. L. Mencken The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars: the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.~ H. L. Mencken The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think.~ H. L. Mencken The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.~ H. L. Mencken Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel.~ H. L. Mencken Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.~ H. L. Mencken It is the theory of all modern civilized governments that they protect and foster the liberty of the citizen; it is the practice of all of them to limit its exercise, and sometimes very narrowly.~ H. L. Mencken We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.~ H. L. Mencken All I ask is equal freedom. When it is denied, as it always is, I take it anyhow.~ H. L. Mencken For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong.~ H. L. Mencken Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right.~ H. L. Mencken Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.~ H. L. Mencken Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print