H.L. Mencken - 🦋 Beautiful Quotes

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It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.

The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.