H. L. Mencken Quotes About Fathers

• Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

  H. L. Mencken

  Father, Dignity, Thanksgiving Day

• The worshiper is the father of the gods.

  H. L. Mencken

  Father, Religion, Dignity

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.178, Vintage

• Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Christian, Father, Thinking

• A woman usually respects her father, but her view of her husband is mingled with contempt, for she is of course privy to the transparent devices by which she snared him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, Father, Views

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.537, Vintage

• The average woman must inevitably view her actual husband with a certain disdain; he is anything but her ideal. In consequence, she cannot help feeling that her children are cruelly handicapped by the fact that he is their father.

  H. L. Mencken

  Husband, Children, Father

  H. L. Mencken (2015). “In Defense of Women: Human Sexuality”, p.42, 谷月社

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