Famous Quotes / H. L. Mencken
257 Quotations by H. L. Mencken
- 81. Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator, and not infr ...
- 82. Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
- 83. Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not ...
- 84. I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upo ...
- 85. I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
- 86. I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to ...
- 87. I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
- 88. I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.
- 89. I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
- 90. I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
- 91. I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of peop ...
- 92. I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
- 93. I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys ...
- 94. If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries fo ...
- 95. If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.
- 96. If women believed in their husbands, they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foo ...
- 97. Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
- 98. Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.
- 99. Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
- 100. Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.