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• The public demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false.
  But there are no certainties. -- H.L. Mencken, "Prejudice...
• Criticism is prejudice made plausible. -- H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)
• Long ago I proposed that unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency be quietly hanged, as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.
  The sight of their grief must have a very evil effect upon the young....
• The only certainties in life are death and taxes.
• It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.
  -- H. L. Mencken, Notebooks, 1956...
• 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)...
• Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
  -- H. L. Mencke...
• His magazine [Wallace's Reader's Digest] is so bad it may go over.
  There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public....
• H. L. Mencken suffers from the hallucination that he is H.
  L. Mencken -- there is no cure for a disease of that magnitude. -- Maxwell Bodenheim...