H. L. Mencken Quotes & Sayings (Page 8)

“It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.”

“When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before.”

“I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.”

“Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.”

“A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.”

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

“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”

“Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.”

“I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.”

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