Henry Louis Mencken

b. 1880; d. 1956

Aphorisms Attributed to This Aphorist

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tiny.ag/rqul7ovr · submitted 1997

A home is not a mere transient shelter: its essence lies in the personalities of the people who live in it.

tiny.ag/kqr3auag · submitted 1997

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.

tiny.ag/oujtda0e · submitted 1997

Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.

tiny.ag/tnirgb8y · submitted 1997

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking.

tiny.ag/jwmd8ebc · submitted 1997

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

tiny.ag/jcmyu3ji · submitted 1997

Demagogue: One who preaches a doctrine he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.

tiny.ag/yosfdtrk · submitted 1997

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

tiny.ag/o6zxkels · submitted 1997

Love: The delusion that one woman differs from another.

tiny.ag/7gz85bqy · submitted 1997

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

tiny.ag/b4tuds1y · submitted 1997

There's always an easy solution to every human problem -- neat, plausible, and wrong.

tiny.ag/wyl7j4bs · submitted 1997

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach.

tiny.ag/tg5j4hni · submitted 1997

Unquestionably, there is progress. The average American now pays out twice as much in taxes as he formerly got in wages.

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