H. L. Mencken on Wisdom
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken on Taxes
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.
H. L. Mencken on Religion
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Quotations Qoute by H. L. Mencken
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
H. L. Mencken on Money
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken on Men
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
H. L. Mencken on Love & Romance
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H. L. Mencken on Democracy
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
H. L. Mencken on Democracy
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H. L. Mencken on Criticism
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.