“The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
H. L. Mencken Quotes
1880 – 1956
American journalist and critic, known for "The American Language".
25 quotesAbout H. L. Mencken on Wikipedia
“A man may be a fool and not know it—but not if he is married.”
“The final test of truth is ridicule. Very few dogmas have ever faced it and survived.”
“The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.”
“Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got used to it.”
“Bachelors know more about women than married men. If they didn't, they'd be married, too.”
“Poverty is a soft pedal upon the branches of human activity, not excepting the spiritual.”
“It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.”
“Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”
“There are no mute, inglorious Miltons, save in the hallucinations of poets.”
“Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
“Democrats are always happy. Democracy is a sort of laughing gas.”
“It is the natural tendency of the ignorant to believe what is not true.”
“The truth, indeed, is something that mankind, for some mysterious reason, instinctively dislikes.”
“The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.”
“Democracy always seems bent upon killing the thing it theoretically loves.”
