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H. L. Mencken

Read through the most famous quotes from H. L. Mencken




A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.


— H. L. Mencken


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All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.


— H. L. Mencken


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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.


— H. L. Mencken


#better #cabbage #concludes #idealist #make

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.


— H. L. Mencken


#made #plausible #prejudice

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.


— H. L. Mencken


#common sense #hate #hates #i #likes

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.


— H. L. Mencken


#evil #government #i #i believe #i believe that

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


— H. L. Mencken


#both #ears #fence #ground #keep

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.


— H. L. Mencken


#dollars #hundred #husband #income #least

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.


— H. L. Mencken


#curse #get #idealism #into #materialism

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


— H. L. Mencken


#know #man #married #may






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Did you know about H. L. Mencken?

The marriage made national headlines and many were surprised that Mencken who once called marriage "the end of hope" and who was well known for mocking relations between the sexes had gone to the altar. In 1926 he deliberately had himself arrested for selling an issue of The American Mercury that was banned in Boston under the Comstock laws.

A keen cheerleader of scientific progress he was very skeptical of economic theories and particularly critical of anti-intellectualism bigotry populism fundamentalist Christianity creationism organized religion the existence of God and osteopathic/chiropractic medicine. Henry Louis "H. During and after World War I he was sympathetic to the Germans and was very distrustful of British propaganda.

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