H L Mencken quotes - Page : 2

" I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. " # Government # Time and Time Management # Evil

" Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. " # Prophecy # Religion # Heresy

" It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. " # Grammar # Golf # Music

" The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal. " # Bores and Boredom # Animals # Humankind

" To die for an idea it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true " # Death and Dying # Ideas # Life and Living

" Platitude an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. " # Ideas

" Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. " # Taste # America # Money

" JUDGE, n A law student who marks his own papers. " # Law and Lawyers # Judgment and Judges # Education

" The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind. " # Fiction # Passion # Happiness

" It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. " # Planning # Honesty # Common Sense