1,045 Quotes by H. L. Mencken

Change is not progress.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

The course of the United States in World War II, I said, was dishonest, dishonorable, and ignominious, and the Sunpapers, by supporting Roosevelt's foreign policy, shared in this disgrace.

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

The common man knows exactly what he wants...and deserves to get it good and hard.

It is almost impossible for an Anglo-Saxon to write of sex without being dirty.