1,045 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

Voting is simply a way of determining which side is the stronger without putting it to the test of fighting.

It is only doubt that creates. It is only the minority that counts.

Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.

If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

When a woman says she won't, it's a good sign that she will. And when she says she will, it is an even better sign.

The average schoolmaster is and always must be essentially an ass, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation.

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.

The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.

Every step in human progress, from the first feeble stirrings in the abyss of time, has been opposed by the great majority of men. Every valuable thing that has been added to the store of man's possessions has been derided by them when it was new, and destroyed by them when they had the power. They have fought every new truth ever heard of, and they have killed every truth-seeker who got into their hands.