Who likes the quote in my signature and hl mencken

Post Reply New Topic

I quite do. the man is from bmore whose metro area I hale from.
covered the scopes monkey trial from the baltimore sun.

http://www.io.com/~gibbonsb/mencken.html

The most prominent newspaperman, book reviewer, and political commentator of his day, Henry Louis Mencken was a libertarian before the word came into usage. His prose is as clear as an azure sky, and his rhetoric as deadly as a rifle shot. Frequent targets of his lance were Franklin Roosevelt and New Deal politics, Comstocks, hygenists, "uplifters", social reformers of any stripe, boobs & quacks, and the insatiable American appetite for nonsense and gaudy sham. But his life was not defined by negativity. He was positively enthusiastic about to the writings of Twain and Conrad, the music of Brahms, Beethoven and Bach, and the victuals offered up by Chesapeake Bay.

an atheist as well

some quotes:
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/H._L._Mencken/31
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

- More quotations on: [Love]

Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.

Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to making one another unhappy. It is an art like any other. Its virtuosi are called altruists.


Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.

- More quotations on: [Men And Women]
Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly.

H. L. Mencken
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.

still no answers, too many quotes methinks,
too much text mesures

but yes, i like

could have done with some editing & spacing though