#mo

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

— H. L. Mencken

#common sense #hate #hates #i #likes

Honor is simply the morality of superior men. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#honor #morality #simply #superior

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#claus #democracy #dream #heaven #only

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

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#ends #mother-in-law #never #visit #whose

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#every #every man #free #giving #good

I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#confess #democracy #enjoy #hence #i

Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#based #emotion #experience #had #impossible

Most people want security in this world, not liberty. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#most #people #security #want #world

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

— H. L. Mencken

#here #human #human knowledge #knowledge #moonshine