257 Quotations by H. L. Mencken
- 1. A bore is simply a nonentity who resents his humble lot in life, and seeks satisfaction for his woun ...

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

- 3. A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who wi ...

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

- 5. A gentlemen is one who never strikes a woman without provocation.

- 6. A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

- 7. A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live ...

- 8. A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.

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

- 10. A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch the ...

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

- 12. A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regar ...

- 13. A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean ...

- 14. A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and ...

- 15. A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

- 16. A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.

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

- 18. A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.

- 19. A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

- 20. A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, even if he drank.

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