257 Quotations by H. L. Mencken
- 221. The truth is, as every one knows, that the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom ...
- 222. The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.
- 223. The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false face for the urge to rule it.
- 224. The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual state of alarm (and hence ...
- 225. The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery ...
- 226. The worshiper is the father of the gods.
- 227. Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
- 228. There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as ...
- 229. There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
- 230. There comes a time when a man must spit on his hands, hoist the black flag and begin slitting throat ...
- 231. There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.
- 232. There is always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.
- 233. There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.
- 234. There is nothing worse than an idle hour, with no occupation offering. People who have many such hou ...
- 235. Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.
- 236. Time stays, we go.
- 237. To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young wom ...
- 238. To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for idea ...
- 239. To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a si ...
- 240. To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolutions a minute. 2. Man is a si ...
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