Henry Louis Mencken Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Henry Louis Mencken quotes, Henry Louis Mencken sayings, and Henry Louis Mencken proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell Henry Louis Mencken
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them Henry Louis Mencken
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one. Henry Louis Mencken
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. Henry Louis Mencken
Adultery is the application of democracy to love. Henry Louis Mencken
Honor is simply the morality of superior men. Henry Louis Mencken
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one Henry Louis Mencken
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. Henry Louis Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. Henry Louis Mencken
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. Henry Louis Mencken
Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting. Henry Louis Mencken
The way to hold a husband is to keep him a little jealous; the way to lose him is to keep him a little more jealous. Henry Louis Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Henry Louis Mencken
You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing. Henry Louis Mencken
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends. Henry Louis Mencken
Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself. Henry Louis Mencken
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar. Henry Louis Mencken
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. Henry Louis Mencken
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race. Henry Louis Mencken
Correct spelling, indeed, is one of the arts that are far more esteemed by school ma'ams than by practical men, neck-deep in the heat and agony of the world. Henry Louis Mencken
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century. Henry Louis Mencken
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too. Henry Louis Mencken
The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party of bandits. Henry Louis Mencken
Judge – A law student who marks his own examination papers. Henry Louis Mencken