Author Topic: ~ Henry Mencken Quotes ~ (Read 5385 times)

MysteRy · « **Reply #15 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:00:59 PM »

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.

MysteRy · « **Reply #16 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:01:24 PM »

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

MysteRy · « **Reply #17 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:01:49 PM »

A man may be a fool and not know it but not if he is married.

MysteRy · « **Reply #18 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:02:16 PM »

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

MysteRy · « **Reply #19 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:02:44 PM »

A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.

MysteRy · « **Reply #20 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:03:09 PM »

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

MysteRy · « **Reply #21 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:03:34 PM »

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

MysteRy · « **Reply #22 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:03:58 PM »

Puritanism - the haunting fear that someone somewhere may be happy.

MysteRy · « **Reply #23 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:04:27 PM »

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.

MysteRy · « **Reply #24 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:05:02 PM »

A cynic is a man who when he smells flowers looks around for a coffin.

MysteRy · « **Reply #25 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:05:29 PM »

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

MysteRy · « **Reply #26 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:05:53 PM »

'Tis more blessed to give than to receive; for example wedding presents.

MysteRy · « **Reply #27 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:06:22 PM »

We are here and it is now. Further than that all knowledge is moonshine.

MysteRy · « **Reply #28 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:06:46 PM »

It is the dull man who is always sure and the sure man who is always dull.

MysteRy · « **Reply #29 on:** October 10, 2014, 05:07:13 PM »

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.

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