A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. — H. L. Mencken 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
Judge: a law student who marks his own examination-papers. — H. L. Mencken Constitution Copy Share Image
One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched. — H. L. Mencken American literature 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
The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all other men are just as easy to fool. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty. — H. L. Mencken Anglo saxon Copy Share Image
Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said… — H. L. Mencken Beautiful Copy Share Image
An altruist is one who would be sincerely sorry to see his neighbor's children devoured by wolves. — H. L. Mencken Altruism Copy Share Image
It is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No government is ever really in favor of so-called civil rights. It always tries to whittle them down. They are preserved under… — H. L. Mencken Civil rights Copy Share Image
The late William Jennings Bryan, L.L.D., always had one great advantage in controversy; he was never burdened with an understanding of his… — H. L. Mencken Advantage Copy Share Image
No one ever heard of the truth being enforced by law. When the secular is called in to sustain an idea, whether… — H. L. Mencken Bad idea Copy Share Image
Let no one mistake it for comedy, farcical though it may be in all its details. It serves notice on the country… — H. L. Mencken Comedy Copy Share Image
Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple,… — H. L. Mencken Earth Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely… — H. L. Mencken Certainty Copy Share Image
Once a woman passes a certain point in intelligence, it is almost impossible to get a husband: she simply cannot go on… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The extortions and oppressions of government will go on so long as such bare fraudulence deceives and disarms the victims; so long… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Setting aside the vast herd which shows no definable character at all, it seems to me that the minority distinguished by what… — H. L. Mencken Acquaintance Copy Share Image
The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
College football is a game which would be much more interesting if the faculty played instead of the students, and even more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man is the yokel par excellence, the booby unmatchable, the king dupe of the cosmos. He is chronically and unescapably deceived, not… — H. L. Mencken Animal Copy Share Image
I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty is not for these slaves; I do not advocate inflicting it against their conscience. On the contrary, I am strongly in… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that… — 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
“Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of a dilemma.” — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor — H. L. Mencken Actors Copy Share Image
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs of the Chicago stockyard. — H. L. Mencken Chicago Copy Share Image
The common notion that free speech prevails in the United States always makes me laugh. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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