No politician is ever benefited by saving money; it is spending it that makes him. — H. L. Mencken Money 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
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Art Copy Share Image
The more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are! — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife. — H. L. Mencken Adultery Copy Share Image
The real charm of the United States is that it is the only comic country ever heard of. — H. L. Mencken Charm Copy Share Image
Philadelphia is the most pecksniffian of American cities, and thus probably leads the world. — H. L. Mencken American cities Copy Share Image
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. — H. L. Mencken Argument Copy Share Image
The American people, taking one with another, constitute the most timorous, snivelling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goosesteppers ever gathered under… — H. L. Mencken Age Copy Share Image
Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from… — H. L. Mencken Great man Copy Share Image
The fundamental trouble with marriage is that it shakes a man's confidence in himself, and so greatly diminishes his general competence and… — H. L. Mencken Battle Copy Share Image
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White… — H. L. Mencken Day Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation has all the authority, in these theological uplands, of military orders in time of war. The people turn… — H. L. Mencken Atheism Copy Share Image
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than to lie. I believe that it is better to be free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No professional politician is ever actually in favor of public economy. It is his implacable enemy, and he knows it. All professional… — H. L. Mencken Corruption Copy Share Image
The feelings that Beethoven put into his music were the feelings of a god. There was something olympian in his snarls and… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Here the only genuine conflict is between true believers. Of a given text in Holy Writ one faction may say this thing… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Puritan, of course, is not entirely devoid of aesthetic feeling. He has a taste for good form; he responds to style;… — H. L. Mencken Aesthetic Copy Share Image
I believe in only one thing and that thing is human liberty. If ever a man is to achieve anything like dignity,… — H. L. Mencken Absolute freedom Copy Share Image
Politics, under a democracy, reduces itself to a mere struggle for office by flatterers of the proletariat; even when a superior man… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and… — H. L. Mencken Absurdity 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 Amendments Copy Share Image
Of all the human qualities, the one I admire the most is competence. A tailor who is really able to cut and… — 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 Adversaries Copy Share Image
At eight or nine, I suppose intelligence is no more than a small spot of light on the floor of a large… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. — H. L. Mencken Communism Copy Share Image
The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work, stretch out in the sun, and scratch himself. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The worst of marriage is that it makes a woman believe that all men are just as easy to fool. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The state remains, as it was in the beginning, the common enemy of all well-disposed, industrious and decent men. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought.. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. — H. L. Mencken Cynic Copy Share Image
Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on. — H. L. Mencken Boast Copy Share Image
Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it. — H. L. Mencken Fiction Copy Share Image
If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is no record in the history of a nation that ever gained anything valuable by being unable to defend itself. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In any combat between a rogue and a fool the sympathy of mankind is always with the rogue. — H. L. Mencken Combat Copy Share Image
No form of liberty is worth a darn [sic] which doesn't give us the right to do wrong now and then. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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