Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.-- H. L. Mencken
"Legend -- a lie that has attained the dignity of age."-- H. L. Mencken
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.-- H. L. Mencken
"For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong."-- H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.-- H. L. Mencken
The American public knows what it wants, and deserves to get it good and hard.-- H. L. Mencken
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.-- H. L. Mencken
"It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place."
-- H. L. Mencken
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.-- H. L. Mencken
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.-- H. L. Mencken
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes she were not."-- H.L. Mencken
"Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable."-- Henry Louis Mencken