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• The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.
  It is the chief occupation of mankind. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• One horse laugh is worth 10,000 syllogisms. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.
  It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. -- H. L. Mencke...
• Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)...
• The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices, First Serie...
• Christendom is that part of the world where, if a man declare himself to be a Christian, his hearers laugh at him.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace.
  -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956), 1951...
• A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.
  -- H. L. Mencke...