Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly. — H. L. Mencken Advice Copy Share Image
Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible. — H. L. Mencken Belief Copy Share Image
To every complex question there is a simple answer and it is wrong... — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
If there were only three women left in the world, two of them would immediately convene a court-martial to try the other… — H. L. Mencken Court Copy Share Image
Chopin--Two embalmers at work upon a minor poetthe scent of tuberosesAutumn rain. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is,… — H. L. Mencken Art Copy Share Image
Women have a hard enough time in this world: telling them the truth would be too cruel. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The great secret of happiness in love is to be glad that the other fellow married her. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open raft. — H. L. Mencken Duel Copy Share Image
[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket. — H. L. Mencken Contribution Copy Share Image
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to cadge customers from the divines… — H. L. Mencken Atheism Copy Share Image
The so-called religious organizations which now lead the war against the teaching of evolution are nothing more, at bottom, than conspiracies of… — H. L. Mencken Atheism Copy Share Image
The sort of man who likes to spend his time watching a cage of monkeys chase one another, or a lion gnaw… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
What makes philosophy so tedious is not the profundity of philosophers, but their lack of art; they are like physicians who soughtto… — H. L. Mencken Art Copy Share Image
The thing constantly overlooked by those hopefuls who talk about abolishing war is that it is by no means an evidence of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The notion that artists flourish upon adversity and misunderstanding, that they are able to function to the utmost in an atmosphere of… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of… — H. L. Mencken Absolution Copy Share Image
Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infrequently they actually have comic… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, it appears, a conspiracy of scientists afoot. Their purpose is to break down religion, propagate immorality, and so reduce mankind… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Democracy turns upon and devours itself. Universal suffrage, in theory the palladium of our liberties, becomes the assurance of our slavery. And… — H. L. Mencken Assurance Copy Share Image
It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and the more… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Of all the classes of men, I dislike the most those who make their livings by talking - actors, clergymen, politicians, pedagogues,… — H. L. Mencken Actors Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, it is the Christian theory that it is only a regard for this Being -- partly a trembling fear and partly… — H. L. Mencken Common decency Copy Share Image
The art of politics, under democracy, is simply the art of ringing it. Two branches reveal themselves. There is the art of… — H. L. Mencken Art Copy Share Image
Every lynching deprives its victim of his life without due process of law, and denies him an equal protection of the law.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife. — H. L. Mencken April fools day Copy Share Image
The intelligent, like the unintelligent, are responsive to propaganda. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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