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H. L. Mencken
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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H. L. Mencken
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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H. L. Mencken
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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H. L. Mencken
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
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H. L. Mencken
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
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H. L. Mencken
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
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H. L. Mencken
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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H. L. Mencken
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.
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H. L. Mencken
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling.
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H. L. Mencken
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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H. L. Mencken
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
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