The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply. — H. L. Mencken God 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
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
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong. — H. L. Mencken Character 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
Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse. — H. L. Mencken Damage Copy Share Image
One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is impossible to think of a man of any actual force and originality, universally recognized as having those qualities, who spent… — H. L. Mencken Creativity Copy Share Image
No healthy man, in his secret heart, is content with his destiny. He is tortured by dreams and images as a child… — H. L. Mencken Candy Copy Share Image
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world, or to ladle out its… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A politician normally prospers under democracy in proportion ... as he excels in the invention of imaginary perils and imaginary defenses against them. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Nietzsche, to the end of his days, remained a Russian pastor's son, and hence two-thirds of a Puritan; he erected his war… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What is too often forgotten is that nature obviously intends the botched to die, and that every interference with that benign process… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent… — H. L. Mencken Auctions Copy Share Image
There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“When difficulties confront him he no longer blames them upon the inscrutable enmity of remote and ineffable powers; he blames them upon… — H. L. Mencken Building blocks Copy Share Image
The taboos that I have mentioned are extraordinarily harsh and numerous. They stand around nearly every subject that is genuinely important to… — H. L. Mencken Atheism Copy Share Image
The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea, however fundamental it may seem to be,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My belief in free speech is so profound that I am seldom tempted to deny it to the other fellow. Nor do… — H. L. Mencken Belief Copy Share Image
Only to often on meeting scientific men, even those of genuine distiction, one finds that they are dull fellows and very stupid.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H. L. Mencken Colony Copy Share Image
The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh. — H. L. Mencken Astronomers Copy Share Image
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. — H. L. Mencken Children Copy Share Image
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. — H. L. Mencken Democracy Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the booberie of the booboisie. — H. L. Mencken Never underestimate Copy Share Image
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