- Change theme
Quotes by H L Mencken
- I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
- I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.
- If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.
- Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
- In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
- It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
- It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
- It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
- It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
1