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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