There's really no point to voting. If it made any difference, it would probably be illegal. — H. L. Mencken Differences Copy Share Image
God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each… — H. L. Mencken Boys Copy Share Image
A man is called a good fellow for doing things which, if done by a woman, would land her in a lunatic… — H. L. Mencken Asylum Copy Share Image
When I hear a man applauded by the mob I always feel a pang of pity for him. All he has to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.” — H. L. Mencken American english Copy Share Image
In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H. L. Mencken Book Copy Share Image
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. — H. L. Mencken Christianity 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
The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes. Every man who tries to tell it is unpopular,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Shave a gorilla and it would be almost impossible, at twenty paces, to distinguish him from a heavyweight champion of the world.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The priest, realistically considered, is the most immoral of men, for he is always willing to sacrifice every other sort of good… — H. L. Mencken Atheism Copy Share Image
What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can… — H. L. Mencken Agnostic Copy Share Image
All of the American's foreign wars have been fought with foes either too weak to resist them or too heavily engaged elsewhere… — H. L. Mencken Combat Copy Share Image
To believe that Russia has got rid of the evils of capitalism takes a special kind of mind. It is the same… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Why do men delight in work? Fundamentally, I suppose, because there is a sense of relief and pleasure in getting something done… — H. L. Mencken Delight Copy Share Image
Don't tell me what delusion he entertains regarding God, or what mountebank he follows in politics, or what he springs from, or… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Consider him in his highest incarnation: the university professor. What is his function? Simply to pass on to fresh generations of numskulls… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I am one of the few goyim who have ever actually tackled the Talmud. I suppose you now expect me to add… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It [the State] has taken on a vast mass of new duties and responsibilities; it has spread out its powers until they… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human… — H. L. Mencken Character Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Adventure 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
There comes a day of public ceremonial, and a chance to make a speech… A million voters with IQs below 60 have… — H. L. Mencken Atheism Copy Share Image
There is no idea so stupid that you can't find a professor who will believe it. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man is a natural polygamist: he always has one woman leading him by the nose, and another hanging on to his coattails. — H. L. Mencken Coattails Copy Share Image
There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good. — H. L. Mencken Baltimore Copy Share Image
If what I may believe - about gall-stones, the Constitution, castor oil, or God - is conditioned by law, then I am… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Christian always swears a bloody oath that he will never do it again. The civilized man simply resolves to be a… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Our literature, despite several false starts that promised much, is chiefly remarkable, now as always, for its respectable mediocrity. — H. L. Mencken American literature Copy Share Image
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is my conviction that no normal man ever fell in love, within the ordinary meaning of the term, after the age… — H. L. Mencken Faith Copy Share Image
Without a doubt there are women who would vote intelligently. There are also men who knit socks beautifully. — H. L. Mencken Doubt Copy Share Image
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings… — 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
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience… — H. L. Mencken Emotion Copy Share Image
In every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands. — H. L. Mencken Boast Copy Share Image
Poetry is a comforting piece of fiction set to more or less lascivious music. — H. L. Mencken Comforting Copy Share Image
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