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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
The notion that science does not concern itself with first causes - that it leaves the field to theology or metaphysics, and confines itself to mere effects - this notion has no support in the plain facts. If it could, science would explain the origin of life on earth at once - and there is every reason to believe that it will do so on some not too remote tomorrow. To argue that gaps in knowledge which will confront the seeker must be filled, not by patient inquiry, but by intuition or revelation, is simply to give ignorance a gratuitous and preposterous dignity.-- H. L. Mencken