The Mencken Society
Promoting the living works of Henry Louis Mencken, the "Sage of Baltimore"
- A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
- Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- Every man is his own hell.
- Historian – An unsuccessful novelist.
- Misogynist – A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
- Optimist – The sort of man who marries his sister’s best friend.
- Puritanism – The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
- The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
- The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army began, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.
- Wealth – Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
Promoting the living works of Henry Louis Mencken, the "Sage of Baltimore"
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Der Tag (Mencken Day) 2014
Mencken Day 2014 will be held September 13, 2014, at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD. 10:30 AM: Mencken Society Annual Meeting with guest speaker Marion Elizabeth Rodgers. Marion’s latest book is H. L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition (The Library of America, 2014). 2:00 PM: The 2014 Mencken Memorial […]
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TRIPLY HAPPY
The Library of America will be releasing a new edition of the Days books, edited by the incomparable Marion E. Rodgers: “Mencken continued to add to them after publication, annotating and expanding each volume in type- scripts sealed to the public for twenty-five years after his death. Until now, most of this material—often more frank […]
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Calvin K. Kobsa, 1927-2014
Society member Calvin Kern Kobsa died at the age of eighty-six at Gilchrist Hospice Care in Towson on May 10, 2014. Calvin, the son of Charles J. Kobsa, a piano maker and tuner, and Marie Kern Kobsa, was born in Baltimore July 31, 1927. He was graduated from Polytechnic Institute and earned a bachelor’s degree […]
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A Mencken Cornucopia
The Enoch Pratt Free Library continues to post pictorial treasures from its Mencken holdings on the Web and we encourage society members to take advantage of this cornucopia. Begin your explorations at the H. L. Mencken Room webpage.
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Ninth Annual Mencken Grave-site Memorial Service, 2014-01-26 (Sun)
The 9th Annual Mencken Grave-site Memorial Service will be held Sunday, January 26, 2014 at 2:00 PM at the Mencken family plot in Loudon Park Cemetery. Signs will point the way to the grave-site. After the brief (less than 10 minutes) ceremony, attendees are invited to Spirits West Country Club, 2601 Wilkens Ave. Loudon Park […]
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