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

Mencken, H. L. on evolution
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"The lunatic fringe wags the underdog."

Mencken, H. L. on eccentricity
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"I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing."

Mencken, H. L. on democracy   

"The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt."

Mencken, H. L. on abuse
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"You know, it's cigarettes that killed (Jerry) Garcia. Everyone thinks it's heroin, but it wasn't. It was cigarettes."

Mellencamp, John on smoking   

"Somebody said to me, But the Beatles were anti-materialistic. That's a huge myth. John and I literally used to sit down and say, Now, let's write a swimming pool."

Mccartney, Paul on materialism   

"Be smart, but never show it."

Mayer, Louis B on modesty   

"Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers."

Maugham, W. Somerset on perfection
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"Love is what happens to a man and woman who don't know each other."

Maugham, W. Somerset on love   

"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something."

Mason, Jackie on money   

"Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe."

Mason, Jackie on marriage   

"My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one."

Marx, Groucho on children   

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."

Mencken, H. L. on love
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"If I ever marry it will be on a sudden impulse, as a man shoots himself."

Mencken, H. L. on marriage   

"Music is spiritual. The music business is not."

Morrison, Van on music
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"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."

Mull, Martin on family   

"The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder."

Morrison, Jim on parents and parenting
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"I've been on a calendar, but I've never been on time."

Monroe, Marilyn on punctuality   

"Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."

Monroe, Marilyn on protest   

"Life is a tough proposition and the first hundred years are the hardest."

Mizner, Wilson on life   

"After seven years of marriage, I'm sure of two things -- first, never wallpaper together, and second, you'll need two bathrooms.. both for her. The rest is a mystery, but a mystery I love to be involved in."

Miller, Dennis on marriage
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"I love her too, but our neuroses just don't match."

Miller, Arthur on compatibility   

"I wouldn't say I invented tacky, but I definitely brought it to its present high popularity."

Midler, Bette on popularity   

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

Mencken, H. L. on theology   

"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."

Mencken, H. L. on temptation
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"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

Mencken, H. L. on problems   

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."

Mencken, H. L. on politics   

"Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too."

Mencken, H. L. on bachelor   

"The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral."

Mencken, H. L. on music   

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

Mencken, H. L. on marriage   

"Politics doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does."

Marx, Groucho on politics   

"Only one man in a thousand is a leader of men -- the other 999 follow women."

Marx, Groucho on leadership
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"Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome."

Levant, Oscar on loneliness
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"If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win."

Long, Shelley on winners and winning   

"Sometimes I'm asked by kids why I condemn marijuana when I haven't tried it. The greatest obstetricians in the world have never been pregnant."

Linkletter, Art on empathy   

"People say I'm cocky, but am I supposed to sit here and be insecure and not know where my future's going or not realize that moviemaking is the greatest thing to happen to me?"

Lewis, Juliette on acting and actors   

"The way taxes are, you might as well marry for love."

Lewis, Joe E. on taxes and taxation
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"Adlai Stevenson has a genius for saying the right thing, at the right time, to the wrong people."

Lewis, Joe E. on speakers and speaking   

"I'm still chasing girls. I don't remember what for, but I'm still chasing them."

Lewis, Joe E. on memory   

"I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink."

Lewis, Joe E. on animals