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H L Mencken
A politician is...
A politician is an animal that can sit on the fence and keep both ears to the ground.
Archbishop -- A...
Archbishop -- A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
Theology --An effort...
Theology --An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth...
No one hates...
No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.
Source: What is Going on in the...
Fear of death...
Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.
Source: 'Minority Report'
-- H...
The true function...
The true function of art is to edit nature and so to make it coherent and lovely. The artist is a sort of impassioned...
Moral certainty is...
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows...
There is perhaps...
There is perhaps one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much...
The worst government...
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and human. But when fanatics are...
One of the...
One of the crying needs of the time is for a suitable burial service for the admittedly...
The value the...
The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.
The truly civilized...
The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant . . . His culture is based on I am not too...
A man always...
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness. But after that he begins to bunch...
Human progress is...
Human progress is furthered, not by conformity, but by aberration.
Source:...
To die for...
To die for an idea: it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler would it be if men died for ideas that were...
We are here...
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.
Source:...
Hamlet' has been...
'Hamlet' has been played by 5,000 actors -- no wonder he's crazy.
Source: In...
An idealist is...
An idealist is a man who looks at a rose, and thinks, because it smells sweet, it will make better soup than...
Time is a...
Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
Source: A Book of Prefaces,...
Historian -- an...
Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.
Source: A Mencken Chrestomathy, Sententi?:...