A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.” — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself — H. L. Mencken Funny Copy Share Image
There are no institutions in America: there are only fashions. — H. L. Mencken America Copy Share Image
It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts. — H. L. Mencken Doubt Copy Share Image
Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them. — H. L. Mencken Bridges Copy Share Image
The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads. — H. L. Mencken Freedom Copy Share Image
School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an… — H. L. Mencken Good sign Copy Share Image
Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary… — H. L. Mencken Fool Copy Share Image
Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation. — H. L. Mencken Democracy Copy Share Image
High-toned humanitarians constantly overestimate the sufferings of those they sympathize with. — H. L. Mencken Humanitarianism Copy Share Image
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine… — H. L. Mencken 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
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
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
I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game.… — H. L. Mencken Astrology Copy Share Image
What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a… — H. L. Mencken Cigar Copy Share Image
No one in this world, so far as I know--and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian,… — H. L. Mencken Autobiography Copy Share Image
[The] erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Probably the worst thing that has happened in America in my time is the decay of confidence in the courts. No one… — H. L. Mencken America Copy Share Image
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers. — H. L. Mencken Constitution Copy Share Image
I'm ombibulous. I drink every known alcoholic drink and enjoy them all. — H. L. Mencken Alcoholic drinks Copy Share Image
The great achievement of liberal Protestantism was to make God boring. — H. L. Mencken Achievement Copy Share Image
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time. — H. L. Mencken Character Copy Share Image
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