It is only doubt that creates. H. L. Mencken More Quotes by H. L. Mencken More Quotes From H. L. Mencken The theory behind representative government is that superior men-or at least men not inferior to the average in ability and integrity-are chosen to manage the public business, and that they carry on this work with reasonable intelligence and honest. There is little support for that theory in known facts. H. L. Mencken average integrity men There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music. H. L. Mencken music humorous funny There is no possibility whatsoever of reconciling science and theology, at least in Christendom. Either Jesus arose from the dead or He didn't. If he did, then Christianity becomes plausible; if He did not, then it is sheer nonsense. I defy any genuine scientists to say that he believes in the Resurrection, or indeed in any other cardinal dogma of the Christian system. H. L. Mencken christian believe jesus The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy. H. L. Mencken democracies-have freedom evil 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 husband money funny 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. H. L. Mencken girl kindness memories Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse. H. L. Mencken weapons temptation men I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark. H. L. Mencken drinking dark food Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian. H. L. Mencken music italian baseball It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts. H. L. Mencken freedom law average It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. H. L. Mencken gambling golf sports The effort to reconcile science and religion is almost always made, not by theologians, but by scientists unable to shake off altogether the piety absorbed with their mother's milk. H. L. Mencken effort mother science 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 laughter freedom funny Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable. H. L. Mencken comedian democracy freedom Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age. H. L. Mencken birthday lying history Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon. H. L. Mencken moon writing thinking I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey. H. L. Mencken drunk men book There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. H. L. Mencken writing joy discovery The more a man dreams, the less he believes. H. L. Mencken motivational inspirational life Hanging one scoundrel, it appears, does not deter the next. Well, what of it? The first one is at least disposed of. H. L. Mencken democracy freedom doe
