Famous Quotes & Sayings

H. L. Mencken

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

H. L. Mencken

Love is photogenic. It needs darkness room to develop

H. L. Mencken

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

H. L. Mencken

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

H. L. Mencken

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

H. L. Mencken

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

H. L. Mencken

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

H. L. Mencken

Lawyer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.

H. L. Mencken

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

H. L. Mencken

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

H. L. Mencken

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H. L. Mencken

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

H. L. Mencken

It is more blessed to give than receive; for example, wedding presents.

H. L. Mencken

When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands.

H. L. Mencken

Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband.

H. L. Mencken

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

H. L. Mencken

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

H. L. Mencken

Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself.

H. L. Mencken

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.

H. L. Mencken

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.

H. L. Mencken

Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

H. L. Mencken

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking.

H. L. Mencken

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Greg Kinnear

I can't not find humor in elements of most parts of life, but at the same time nothing ever seems perpetually funny to me.

Jack London

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates. There's plenty of movement, but you never know if it's going to be forward, backwards, or sideways.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

Marion Barry

Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

Mario Puzo

A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.

Marilyn Monroe

Suicide, is a persons privilege. I don't believe it's a sin or a crime it's your right if you do. Though it doesn't get you anywhere.

Marilyn Monroe

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

Nicole Richie

When I pictured heroin, I pictured some crazy crackhead with no shoes under a bridge. You never think that is going to be you. And it never was me. I was never under a bridge, and I always had shoes.