Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character. — 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
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket. — 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 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
The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do… — 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
The legislature, like the executive, has ceased to be even the creature of the people: it is the creature of pressure groups,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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