Henry Mencken Quotes (page 5)

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one wouldn't care to drink with - even if he drank.

Character and Personality

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone somewhere may be having a good time.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I believe that all government is evil and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

For centuries theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves day in and day out to making one another unhappy.

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