Henry Mencken
sitemanagerThe chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
Henry Mencken
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
Henry Mencken
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
Henry Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Henry Mencken
Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Henry Mencken
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
Henry Mencken
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.
Henry Mencken
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Henry Mencken
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one…
Henry Mencken
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Henry Mencken
The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism. buy xanax ebay
Henry Mencken
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
Henry Mencken
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
Henry Mencken
A Galileo could no more be elected president of the United States than he could be elected Pope of Rome. Both high posts are reserved for men favored by God…
Henry Mencken
Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty, fairness, and, above all, love of the truth.
Henry Mencken
No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
Henry Mencken
Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
Henry Mencken
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Henry Mencken
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
Henry Mencken
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
Henry Mencken
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Henry Mencken
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. new york cleaning service
Henry Mencken
The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.
Henry Mencken
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Henry Mencken
Every government is a scoundrel.
Henry Mencken
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.
Henry Mencken
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
Henry Mencken
The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression…
Henry Mencken
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Henry Mencken
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Henry Mencken
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
Henry Mencken
The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only…
Henry Mencken
We must repsect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children are…
Henry Mencken
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull
Henry Mencken
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
Henry Mencken
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Henry Mencken
Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.