Henry Louis Mencken
United States
12 Sep 1880 // 29 Jan 1956
Journalist / Satirist /Social critic
12 Sep 1880 // 29 Jan 1956
Journalist / Satirist /Social critic
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If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish
If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk
I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end
Every man is his own hell
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays