We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
H.l. Mencken Quotations
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Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers.
Platitude an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
Imagine the Creator as a stand up commedian - and at once the world becomes explicable.
Puritanism The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other.
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Misogynist A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution and it is always wrong
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
A home is not a mere transient shelter its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.