Quotes By Author: H.L. Mencken
“There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.”
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“Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.”
“No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.”
“You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.”
“The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians.”
“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn’t there. A theologian is the man who finds it.”
“In the present case it is a little inaccurate to say I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible to any public office of trust or profit in the Republic. But I do not repine, for I am a subject of it only by force of arms.”
“Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.”