--- title: "11 Imagine Quotes By H. L. Mencken" description: "11 Imagine quotes by H. L. Mencken. Plus more from H. L. Mencken and more Imagine sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/h-l-mencken-245_ass_the-average-schoolmaster-is-and-always-m_1373992.png" --- > [The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-average-schoolmaster-is-and-always-must-be-essentially-an-ass-for/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1f9/h-l-mencken-245_ass_the-average-schoolmaster-is-and-always-m_1373992.png) > [It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/it-is-impossible-to-imagine-goethe-or-beethoven-being-good-at/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/467/h-l-mencken-245_goethe_it-is-impossible-to-imagine-goethe-or-be_2640153.png) > [Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/imagine-the-creator-as-a-low-comedian-and-at-once-the-world-becomes/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/44e/h-l-mencken-245_atheism_imagine-the-creator-as-a-low-comedian-an_2649802.png) > [It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/it-is-impossible-to-imagine-the-universe-run-by-a-wise-just-and/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/702/h-l-mencken-245_easy_it-is-impossible-to-imagine-the-universe_1021941.png) > [I can't imagine a genuinely intelligent boy getting much out of college, even out of a good college, save it be a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/i-can-t-imagine-a-genuinely-intelligent-boy-getting-much-out-of/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c5/h-l-mencken-245_boys_i-can-t-imagine-a-genuinely-intelligent_2994736.png) > [The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-movies-today-are-too-rich-to-have-any-room-for-genuine-artists/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db3/h-l-mencken-245_art_the-movies-today-are-too-rich-to-have-an_97871.png) > [The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-time-must-come-inevitably-when-mankind-shall-surmount-the/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9a3/h-l-mencken-245_adopting_the-time-must-come-inevitably-when-manki_2512221.jpg) > [It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/it-is-difficult-to-imagine-anyone-having-any-real-hopes-for-the-human/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c57/h-l-mencken-245_atheism_it-is-difficult-to-imagine-anyone-having_2459325.png) > [The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-great-masses-of-men-though-theoretically-free-are-seen-to-submit/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bd6/h-l-mencken-245_abhorrent_the-great-masses-of-men-though-theoretic_545043.jpg) > [I am never much interested in the effects of what I write…I seldom read with any attention the reviews of my...books. Two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/i-am-never-much-interested-in-the-effects-of-what-i-write-i-seldom/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eae/h-l-mencken-245_attention_i-am-never-much-interested-in-the-effect_1364827.jpg) > [Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/of-all-the-classes-of-men-i-dislike-the-most-those-who-make-their/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/75f/h-l-mencken-245_actors_of-all-the-classes-of-men-i-dislike-the_144127.png) ## Other authors on Imagine ## More by H. L. Mencken > [Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/alimony-the-ransom-that-the-happy-pay-to-the-devil/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/a-bad-artist-almost-always-tries-to-conceal-his-incompetence-by/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [ By profession a biologist, \[Thomas Henry Huxley\] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/by-profession-a-biologist-thomas-henry-huxley-covered-in-fact-the/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/so-few-men-are-really-worth-knowing-that-it-seems-a-shameful-waste-to/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/man-s-objection-to-love-is-that-it-dies-hard-woman-s-that-when-it-is/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-lunatic-fringe-wags-the-underdog/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/for-it-is-an-absurdity-to-call-a-country-civilized-in-which-a-decent/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/women-have-simple-tastes-they-get-pleasure-out-of-the-conversation-of/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/the-critic-to-interpret-his-artist-even-to-understand-his-artist-must/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/there-is-in-fact-nothing-about-religious-opinions-that-entitles-them/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/don-t-overestimate-the-decency-of-the-human-race/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/liberty-was-a-two-headed-boon-there-was-first-the-liberty-of-the/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [To the extent that I am genuinely educated, I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes and the average pedagogue…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/to-the-extent-that-i-am-genuinely-educated-i-am-suspicious-of-all-the/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/philosophy-first-constructs-a-scheme-of-happiness-and-then-tries-to/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) > [For it is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true. In order to overcome that tendency it is not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-mencken/for-it-is-the-natural-tendency-of-the-ignorant-to-believe-what-is-not/) [H. L. Mencken](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-mencken/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/imagine/h-l-mencken/#itemlist", "name": "11 Imagine Quotes By H. L. 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