A wealthy man is one who earns $100 a year more than his wife's sister's husband. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
How to Drink Like a Gentleman: The Things to Do and the Things Not To, as Learned in 30 Years' Extensive Research. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am a strict monogamist: it is twenty years since I last went to bed with two women at once, and then… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is Hell, of course, that makes priests powerful, not Heaven, for after thousands of years of so-called civilization fear remains the… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists.… — 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
I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have -… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age… — H. L. Mencken 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
All American wars (except the Civil War) have been fought with the odds overwhelmingly in favor of the Americans. In the history… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of… — H. L. Mencken 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
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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