H. L. Mencken's Quotes

H. L. Mencken's Quotes 167

You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something...

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual...

Nine times out of ten in the arts as in life there is actually no truth to...

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you...

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is...

Time stays we go.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought...

Communism like any other revealed religion is largely made up of prophecies.

We must respect the other fellow's religion but only in the sense and to the...

Every man sees in his relatives and especially in his cousins a series of...

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for...

Poetry has done enough when it charms but prose must also convince.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which...

To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would...

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I...

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world as pastors teach...

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

For it is mutual trust even more than mutual interest that holds human...

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