29 Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to spray when it strikes the hard rocks of Manhattan.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

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

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

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.

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact.

Adultery is the application of democracy to love.