1. Henry Louis Mencken - “The cynics are right nine times out of ten.”

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2. Henry Louis Mencken - “Criticism is prejudice made plausible.”

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3. Henry Louis Mencken - “For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.”

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4. Henry Louis Mencken - “Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”

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5. Henry Louis Mencken - “Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.”

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6. Henry Louis Mencken - “Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.”

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7. Henry Louis Mencken - “A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.”

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8. Henry Louis Mencken - “A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.”

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9. Henry Louis Mencken - “A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is married.”

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10. Henry Louis Mencken - “Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.”

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11. Henry Louis Mencken - “In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.”

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12. Henry Louis Mencken - “Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.”

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13. Henry Louis Mencken - “Metaphysics is almost always an attempt to prove the incredible by an appeal to the unintelligible.”

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14. Henry Louis Mencken - “Temptation - An irresistible force at work on a moveable Body.”

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15. Henry Louis Mencken - “The basic fact about human existence is not that it is A tragedy, but that it is a bore.”

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16. Henry Louis Mencken - “The only real happy folk are married women and single men.”

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17. Henry Louis Mencken - “Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right.”

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18. Henry Louis Mencken - “Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage, they are giving evidence at an inquest.”

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19. Henry Louis Mencken - “Women hate revolutions and revolutionists. They like men who are docile, and well-regarded at the bank, and never late at meals.”

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20. Henry Louis Mencken - “There are two times in every man's life when he is thoroughly happy; just after he has met his first love and just after he has parted from his last one.”

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21. Henry Louis Mencken - “A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.”

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22. Henry Louis Mencken - “The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”

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23. Henry Louis Mencken - “The great artists of the world are never Puritans, and seldom even ordinarily respectable.”

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24. Henry Louis Mencken - “There are some people who read too much: The bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as others are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.”

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25. Henry Louis Mencken - “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 and chemistry.”

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