This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
A Puritan is a person who lives in the fear that someone, somewhere, may be having a good time.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
You ask me whether the Orient is up to what I imagined it to be. Yes, it is; and more than that, it extends far beyond the narrow idea I had of it. I have found, clearly delineated, everything that was hazy in my mind. Facts have taken the place of suppositions - so excellently so that it is often as though I were suddenly coming upon old forgotten dreams.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
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H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
Organization | Will | Trouble | Leader |
Men in plural? can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
Sometimes it is better to give your apple away, than to eat it yourself.
Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.
Business | Government | Right | Wealth | Government | Business |
No one ever became poor through giving alms.