H. L. Mencken best Faith Quotes – “Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in.”
H. L. Mencken best Faith Quotes – “Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.”
H. L. Mencken best Failure Quotes – “The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.”
H. L. Mencken best Experience Quotes – “Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
H. L. Mencken best Experience Quotes – “Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.”
H. L. Mencken best Best Quotes – “A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.”
H. L. Mencken best Art Quotes – “Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.”
H. L. Mencken best Anniversary Quotes – “Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.”
H. L. Mencken best Age Quotes – “The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
H. L. Mencken best Age Quotes – “Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”