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H L Mencken Quotes
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The most satisfying and ecstatic faith is almost purely agnostic. It trusts absolutely without professing to know at all (H L Mencken Quotes)
When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to do to be hissed is to live long enough (H L Mencken Quotes)
A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology (H L Mencken Quotes)
A large part of altruism, even when it is perfectly honest, is grounded upon the fact that it is uncomfortable to have unhappy people about one (H L Mencken Quotes)
The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all (H L Mencken Quotes)
What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process is full of dangers (H L Mencken Quotes)
Politics, as hopeful men practise it in the world, consists mainly of the delusion that a change in form is a change in substance (H L Mencken Quotes)
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone (H L Mencken Quotes)
The theater, when all is said and done, is not life in miniature, but life enormously magnified, life hideously exaggerated (H L Mencken Quotes)
On the one hand, we may tell the truth, regardless of consequences, and on the other hand we may mellow it and sophisticate it to make it humane and tolerable (H L Mencken Quotes)
Unionism seldom, if ever, uses such power as it has to insure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work (H L Mencken Quotes)
Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting (H L Mencken Quotes)
War may make a fool of man, but it by no means degrades him; on the contrary, it tends to exalt him, and its net effects are much like those of motherhood on women (H L Mencken Quotes)
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true because he gets pleasure out of it (H L Mencken Quotes)
Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy (H L Mencken Quotes)
How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman’s laugh (H L Mencken Quotes)
The curse of man, and the cause of nearly all his woe, is his stupendous capacity for believing the incredible (H L Mencken Quotes)
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them (H L Mencken Quotes)
The average male gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him (H L Mencken Quotes)
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong (H L Mencken Quotes)
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and human. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression (H L Mencken Quotes)
The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant... His culture is based on I am not too sure (H L Mencken Quotes)
An idealist is a man who looks at a rose, and thinks, because it smells sweet, it will make better soup than cabbage (H L Mencken Quotes)
A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice and truth in front of patriotic passion (H L Mencken Quotes)
It is inaccurate to say I hate everything, I am strongly in favor of common sense, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for any public office (H L Mencken Quotes)
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life; just after he met his first love, and just after he has left his last one (H L Mencken Quotes)
My guess is that well over 80 percent of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought (H L Mencken Quotes)
What the mob thirsts for is not good government in itself, but the merry chase of a definite exponent of bad government (H L Mencken Quotes)
The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake (H L Mencken Quotes)
Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent (H L Mencken Quotes)