Quotes by : H. L. Mencken

The first Rotarian was the first man to call John the Baptist Jack.

It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into....

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to....

Hope: A pathological belief in the occurrence of the impossible.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

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

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal....

Penetrating so many secrets we cease to believe in the unknowable. But there it sits nevertheless calmly....

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.