H. L. Mencken Noses Quotations

Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails.

Any defeat, however trivial, may be fatal to a savior of the plain people. They never admire a messiah with a bloody nose.

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.