Quotes by : H. L. Mencken

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy....

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

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable.....

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so....

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing they marry later. For another thing they....

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party....

Opera in English is in the main just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

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

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

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.