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H L Mencken Facts
H L Mencken Is Born On September 12, 1880
H L Mencken Zodiac Sign Is Virgo
H L Mencken Zodiac Symbol Is Virgin
H L Mencken Chinese Zodiac Element Is Yang Metal
H L Mencken Chinese Zodiac Animal Is Dragon
H L Mencken Occupation Is Writer
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H L Mencken Quotes
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents. - H L Mencken Quotes
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman. - H L Mencken Quotes
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesnt know. - H L Mencken Quotes
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there. - H L Mencken Quotes
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. - H L Mencken Quotes
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. - H L Mencken Quotes
A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it. - H L Mencken Quotes
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. - H L Mencken Quotes
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. - H L Mencken Quotes
A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married. - H L Mencken Quotes
A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in. - H L Mencken Quotes
A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier. - H L Mencken Quotes
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. - H L Mencken Quotes
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - H L Mencken Quotes
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas. - H L Mencken Quotes
A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldnt care to drink with, even if he drank. - H L Mencken Quotes
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. - H L Mencken Quotes
Adultery is the application of democracy to love. - H L Mencken Quotes
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. - H L Mencken Quotes
Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil. - H L Mencken Quotes
All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling. - H L Mencken Quotes
All government, of course, is against liberty. - H L Mencken Quotes
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. - H L Mencken Quotes
All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else. - H L Mencken Quotes
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. - H L Mencken Quotes
An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. - H L Mencken Quotes
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. - H L Mencken Quotes
Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ. - H L Mencken Quotes
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. - H L Mencken Quotes
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didnt theyd be married too. - H L Mencken Quotes
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