When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife. — H. L. Mencken April fools day Copy Share Image
The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong... — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible. — H. L. Mencken Belief Copy Share Image
After all is said and done, a hell lot of a lot more is said than done. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. — H. L. Mencken Frauds Copy Share Image
The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks it is true; he thinks it is true… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A man full of faith is simply one who has lost the capacity for clear and realistic thought. — H. L. Mencken Agnosticism Copy Share Image
The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic. — H. L. Mencken Demand Copy Share Image
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The average man gets his living by such depressing devices that boredom becomes a sort of natural state to him. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible… — H. L. Mencken Feminism Copy Share Image
“No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have searched the record for years, and employed agents to help… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Whatever the label on the parties, or the war cries issuing from the demagogues who lead them, the practical choice is between… — H. L. Mencken Choices Copy Share Image
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and… — H. L. Mencken Clarity Copy Share Image
But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Is it hot in the rolling mill? Are the hours long? Is $15 a day not enough? Then escape is easy. Simply… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed… — H. L. Mencken Christian Copy Share Image
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions… — H. L. Mencken Beauty Copy Share Image
The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures.… — H. L. Mencken Banking Copy Share Image
A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
As for Lindbergh, another eminent servant of science, all he proved by his gaudy flight across the Atlantic was that God takes… — H. L. Mencken Adventure Copy Share Image
Here is one of the fundamental defects of American fiction--perhaps the one character that sets it off sharply from all other known… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[Thomas Henry] Huxley, I believe, was the greatest Englishman of the Nineteenth Century—perhaps the greatest Englishman of all time. When one thinks… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. — H. L. Mencken Respect Copy Share Image
There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public. — H. L. Mencken American public Copy Share Image
Los Angeles: nineteen suburbs in search of a metropolis. — H. L. Mencken Los angeles Copy Share Image
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