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Menckenisms  (By Sarkia (7) on 08/13/2004)

Wisdom of Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) the "Sage of Baltimore." 5 = Great
 
 
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“ Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.” (4)  5.00 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties." (3)  5.00 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
“ No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.” (2)  5.00 (4)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
" If after I depart this vale you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner, and wink your eye at some homely girl." - Mencken's Epitaph (3)  5.00 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
“In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.” (2)  5.00 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
“Fine: A bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime.” (1)  5.00 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” (1)  5.00 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
“Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.” (5)  4.80 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
“Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.” (2)  4.67 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
“It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.” (2)  4.67 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
“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 and chemistry.” (2)  4.67 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"...the great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom respectable. No virtuous man—that is, virtuous in the Y.M.C.A. sense—has ever painted a picture worth.." (4)  4.60 (5)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
“Jury - A group of 12 people, who, having lied to the judge about their health, hearing, and business engagements, have failed to fool him.” (1)  4.50 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
“Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.” (2)  4.50 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good." (2)  4.33 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor." (2)  4.33 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
“He slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.” - Henry L. Mencken, on Calvin Coolidge (2)  4.33 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong." (6)  4.29 (7)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"If Los Angeles is not the one authentic rectum of civilization, then I am no anatomist. Any time you want to go out again and burn it down, count me in." (1)  4.00 (3)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
"The average man doesn't want to be free. He wants to be safe." (1)  4.00 (2)   Rate It!Get Rating Widget!
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