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H L Mencken Quotes

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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time  (H L Mencken Quotes) Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies  (H L Mencken Quotes) Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance  (H L Mencken Quotes) Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage  (H L Mencken Quotes) Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable  (H L Mencken Quotes) I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense  (H L Mencken Quotes) A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin  (H L Mencken Quotes) A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married  (H L Mencken Quotes) A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier  (H L Mencken Quotes) Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking  (H L Mencken Quotes) For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong  (H L Mencken Quotes) I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing  (H L Mencken Quotes) We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine  (H L Mencken Quotes) Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual  (H L Mencken Quotes) Suicide: a belated acquiescence in the opinion of one’s wife’s relatives  (H L Mencken Quotes) If a sense of duty tortures a man, it also enables him to achieve prodigies  (H L Mencken Quotes) The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe  (H L Mencken Quotes) Verse libre; a device for making poetry easier to read and harder to write  (H L Mencken Quotes) The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate  (H L Mencken Quotes) No normal man ever fell in love after 30 when the kidneys begin to disintegrate  (H L Mencken Quotes) All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man  (H L Mencken Quotes) Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music  (H L Mencken Quotes) Government under democracy is thus government by orgy, almost by orgasm  (H L Mencken Quotes) Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn  (H L Mencken Quotes) Great artists are modest almost as seldom as they are faithful to their wives  (H L Mencken Quotes) The ideal state for a philosopher, indeed, is celibacy tempered by polygamy  (H L Mencken Quotes) For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong  (H L Mencken Quotes) Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing  (H L Mencken Quotes) There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident  (H L Mencken Quotes) You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something  (H L Mencken Quotes)
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