Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

seasick-passenger-ocean-liner-good-sailor-past-265-times-day-grandly-large

The seasick passenger on an ocean liner detests the good sailor who stalks past him 265 times a day grandly smoking a large, greasy cigar. In precisely the same way the democrat hates the man who is having a better time in the world. This is the origin of democracy. It is also the origin of Puritanism.

H. L. Mencken's Popular Quotes

When somebody says it’s not about the money, it’s about the money.

- H. L. Mencken

If I ever mary, it will be on a suddn impulse - as aman shoots himself

- H. L. Mencken

The war on privilege will never end. Its next grat campaign will be against the special privileges of the underprivileged.

- H. L. Mencken

There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

- H. L. Mencken

Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort to di…

- H. L. Mencken

The central difficulty lies in the fact that all of the sciences have made such great progress during the last century that they have got quite beyon…

- H. L. Mencken

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. He is like a watch of which the most that can be said is that its cosmetic effect is good.

- H. L. Mencken

One horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.

- H. L. Mencken

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.

- H. L. Mencken