Life without sex might be safer but it would be unbearably dull — H. L. Mencken Blue moon Copy Share Image
America's biggest failure is its inability to take comedy seriously. — H. L. Mencken America Copy Share Image
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H. L. Mencken Colony Copy Share Image
The scent of frying astronomers long ago ceased to ascend to Yahweh. — H. L. Mencken Astronomers Copy Share Image
A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Better than the rest of us, they [the Jews] sensed what was ahead for their people. — H. L. Mencken Israel Copy Share Image
Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. — H. L. Mencken Archbishop Copy Share Image
Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only… — H. L. Mencken Art Copy Share Image
Democracy the domination of unreflective and timorous men, moved in vast herds by mob conditions. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Well, I tell you, if I have been wrong in my agnosticism, when I die I'll walk up to God in a… — H. L. Mencken Agnostic Copy Share Image
Whenever a reporter is assigned to cover a Methodist conference, he comes home an atheist. — H. L. Mencken Atheism Copy Share Image
There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets. The one sound test of a Milton is that he… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
[T]he only thing wrong with Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address was that it was the South, not the North, that was fighting for… — H. L. Mencken Abraham Copy Share Image
The believing mind is externally impervious to evidence. The most that can be accomplished with it is to induce it to substitute… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It is almost as safe to assume that an artist of any dignity is against his country, i.e., against the environment in… — H. L. Mencken Art Copy Share Image
[Texas is] the place where there are the most cows and the least milk and the most rivers and the least water… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to… — H. L. Mencken Corporations Copy Share Image
The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The Jews fastened their religion upon the Western world, not because it was more reasonable than the religions of their contemporaries -… — H. L. Mencken Atheism Copy Share Image
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. Some of… — H. L. Mencken Animal Copy Share Image
One of the main purposes of laws in a democratic society is to put burdens upon intelligence and reduce it to impotence.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The fact is that liberty, in any true sense, is a concept that lies quite beyond the reach of the inferior man's… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions… — H. L. Mencken Beauty Copy Share Image
Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The federal [bank deposit] insurance scheme has worked up to now simply and solely because there have been very few bank failures.… — H. L. Mencken Banking Copy Share Image
And what is a good citizen? Simply one who never says, does or thinks anything that is unusual. Schools are maintained in… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A free citizen in a free state, it seems to me, has an inalienable right to play with whomsoever he will, so… — 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… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Never underestimate the booberie of the booboisie. — H. L. Mencken Never underestimate Copy Share Image
Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods. — H. L. Mencken Democracy Copy Share Image
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. — H. L. Mencken Children Copy Share Image
Christian endeavor is notoriously hard on female pulchritude. — H. L. Mencken Atheism Copy Share Image
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