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An American columnist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American columnist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century.
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Every government is a scoundrel.
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Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
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Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
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Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
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Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
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God is a comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
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Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
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Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
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Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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Time is a great legalizer even in the field of morals.
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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
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Time is a great legalizer even in the fields of morals.
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Nothing can come out of an artist that is not in the man.
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What men value in the world is not rights but privileges.
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Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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A man may be a fool and not know it but not if he is married.
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
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Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.
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The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.
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Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.
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Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
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A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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'Tis more blessed to give than to receive; for example wedding presents.
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We are here and it is now. Further than that all knowledge is moonshine.
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It is the dull man who is always sure and the sure man who is always dull.
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A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
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Opera in English is in the main just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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The essence of a self-reliant and autonomous culture is an unshakeable egoism.
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No one ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
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Imagine the Creator as a low comedian and at once the world becomes explicable.
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It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution but who would want to live in an institution?
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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore.
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A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.
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Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
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A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.
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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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I believe that all government is evil and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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For centuries theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
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Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.
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The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
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Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong and that 99% of them are wrong.
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No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
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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.
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War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
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Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later. For another thing they die earlier.
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In the United States doing good has come to be like patriotism a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
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The only liberty an inferior man really cherishes is the liberty to quit work stretch out in the sun and scratch himself.
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Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly licking its chops.
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Say what you will about the Ten Commandments you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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No matter how happily a woman may be married it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not.
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise just and omnipotent God but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
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Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage clear thinking honesty fairness and above all love of the truth.
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The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
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The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.
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Unionism seldom if ever uses such powers as it has to ensure better work; almost always it devotes a large part of that power to safeguarding bad work.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To be in love is merely to be in a state of perpetual anesthesia: To mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
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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.
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We must respect 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 smart.
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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 smart.
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Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
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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 himself.
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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins all of them imaginary.
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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 a talent for getting and holding office.
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It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish.
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The double standard of morality will survive in this world so long as the woman whose husband has been lured away is favoured with the sympathetic tears of other women and a man whose wife has made off is laughed at by other men.
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Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator and not infrequently they actually have comic touches to the victim. Happiness probably consists largely in the capacity to detect and relish them.
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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 must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all.
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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 with an extraordinary genius for swathing the bitter facts of life in bandages of self-illusion.
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The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to when it is cured on one error is usually simply another error and maybe one worse than the first one.