Author Name

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Author : H. L. Mencken

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

Author : H. L. Mencken

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

Author : H. L. Mencken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Life is a dead-end street.

Author : H. L. Mencken

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

Author : H. L. Mencken

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

Author : H. L. Mencken

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Author : H. L. Mencken

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Author : H. L. Mencken