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Famous Quotes By H. L. Mencken
 A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. 
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
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