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H. L. Mencken

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




Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.


— H. L. Mencken


#another #better #better time #die #earlier

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.


— H. L. Mencken


#most #people #security #want #world

The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.


— H. L. Mencken


#caused #common #crime #kind #poor

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.


— H. L. Mencken


#evidence #hear #jail #jury #laughing

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.


— H. L. Mencken


#explain #knowing #terms #theology #unknowable

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.


— H. L. Mencken


#here #human #human knowledge #knowledge #moonshine

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.


— H. L. Mencken


#privileges #rights #value #world

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


— H. L. Mencken


#drank #drink #even #man #sort

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.


— H. L. Mencken


#attained #christ #christian #rank #superior

Every man is his own hell.


— H. L. Mencken


#every man #hell #his #man #own






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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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