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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Mencken House Ribbon-Cutting Ceremony
On November 24th 2019 an invitation-only ribbon-cutting ceremony was conducted at the Mencken House. Dignitaries and those who over the years gave any time and effort to the cause assembled outside the House. Brigitte Fessenden delivered the opening remarks with following brief remarks by Ethan P. Cohen, Senior Project Coordinator, City of Baltimore; Johns Hopkins, […]
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Der Tag 2019
Mencken Day 2019 will be observed September 21, 2019. Please note the date. Breaking with long-standing scheduling, Mencken Day 2019 will be observed a week later than would be expected as the Pratt Library is celebrating the opening of its renovated facilities on September 14 with a ribbon-cutting and an “open house block party.” When: […]
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Updated Map to the Mencken Grave-Site
The map posted on the 16th (see below) has been revised.
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Road Blocked
The road we have been taking to get to Mr Mencken’s grave-site has been blocked. We have posted a map showing another way of getting there. We regret there will be no directional signs.
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Map to the Mencken Grave-site
[Updated 2019-01-22]
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