H. L. Mencken Quotes

H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
American Writer
Born: Sep 12, 1880
Died: Jan 29, 1956
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. H. L. Mencken
History Age Dignity Lie Legend Attained
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. H. L. Mencken
God Too Laugh Comedian Audience Afraid Playing
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H. L. Mencken
Man He Smells Looks Around Cynic Who Coffin Flowers
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. H. L. Mencken
Man Honor Latter Moral He Between Caught Been Difference Regrets Worked Act Even
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. H. L. Mencken
Great Me People Intelligence World Money Lost Great Masses Records No-One Employed Know Underestimating Masses Years Plain Plain People Far Agents Help Ever
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. H. L. Mencken
Government Time Evil Believe Improve Trying Waste Largely Waste Of Time
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. H. L. Mencken
Better Will Smell Cabbage Idealist Also Make Soup Than Noticing Roses Who
Most people want security in this world, not liberty. H. L. Mencken
People World Liberty Security Most Want
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause. H. L. Mencken
Rebellion Cause Few Determined Only Take Takes Leaders Majority Make Sound
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. H. L. Mencken
Man Fear Safety Unknown Else Everything Everything Else Complex Above Emotion He Permanent Inexplicable Inferior Wants
Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious. H. L. Mencken
Self-Respect Feeling Secure No-One Suspicious
Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. H. L. Mencken
Funny You Will Pleasant Back Say Must About Ten Ten Commandments Only Fact Come Always Commandments Them
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry. H. L. Mencken
Mathematics Woman Physics Chemistry Resort Though Lawful Forbidden She Catholic Still Quite Pregnancy Avoid Now
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. H. L. Mencken
Good Wise Man Vote Made Men Free Giving Every Christianity More Than Them Every Man
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. H. L. Mencken
Good Politician Unthinkable Quite Burglar Honest
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor. H. L. Mencken
Crime Argument Poverty Kind Caused Common Poor Slander
Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other's speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in. H. L. Mencken
Faith Time Day Election Party Past Nothing Other Spend Out Rascals Steals New Making Articles Sitting Candidates So Much Time Turn Much Election Day Gang Many Each By The Time Save Speeches
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. H. L. Mencken
Political Campaign Best Better Political National Circus Thrown Mass Couple Heard Campaign Than Baptism Ever
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. H. L. Mencken
Man Believe He Ape Average Descended Even Harder
The only really happy folk are married women and single men. H. L. Mencken
Happy Women Men Single Married Folk Only Really
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. H. L. Mencken
Love You Man Speak Country Sign He Hear His Expects Whenever Paid
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. H. L. Mencken
Church Will About Never Gentlemen Been Brag Get Heaven Place Which Persons Who
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously. H. L. Mencken
World Seriously Men Trouble Too Visions Taking Idealism Materialism Chief Pastors Get Curse Teach
Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages. H. L. Mencken
Progress Out Unquestionably He Got Wages American Taxes Average Average American Much Pays Now Twice
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken
Problem Every Solution Easy Wrong Always Plausible Neat
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice. H. L. Mencken
Justice Injustice Relatively Easy Bear
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