Quotes by Mencken, H. L.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly. >>

The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled >>

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and functi >>

Quotations about Humankind

Though man is the only beast that can write, he has small reason to be >>

I have found little that is good about human beings on the whole. In m >>

Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, I d >>

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.

Mencken, H. L.