Henry Louis Mencken Quotes

I’ve made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

Is a young man bound to serve his country in war? In addition to his legal duty there is perhaps also a moral duty, but it is very obscure. What is called his country is only its government and that government consists merely of professional politicians, a parasitical and anti-social class of men. They never […]

Men become civilized not in proportion to their willingness to believe but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

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

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.

Living with a dog is messy – like living with an idealist.

It is not the drinker, but the man who has just stopped drinking, who thinks the world is going to the dogs.

Gynecologists: perhaps the most ignorant class of men, when it comes to knowledge of women, in the country.

That erroneous assumption is to the effect that the aim of public education is to fill the young of the species with knowledge and awaken their intelligence, and so make them fit to discharge the duties of citizenship in an enlightened and independent manner. Nothing could be further from the truth. The aim of public […]