Top ten H.L Menckin Quotes

H.L. Menckin

Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 – January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Many of his books are still in print.

 10. Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

9. A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

8. An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

7. Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

6. For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

5. I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

4. I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

3. Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

2. If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

1. We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.