1,045 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop.

You can’t do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.

What is the professor’s function? To pass on to numskulls a body of so-called knowledge that is fragmentary, unimportant, and largely untrue.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable...

There is always an easy solution to every problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone – one which barely escapes being no government at all.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The liberation of the human mind has never been furthered by dunderheads.