Quotes by Mencken, H. L.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not w >>

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds huma >>

To sum up: 1. The cosmos is a gigantic fly-wheel making 10, 000 revolu >>

Quotations about Hygiene

Hygiene is two thirds of health. >>

Man does not live by soap alone; and hygiene, or even health, is not m >>

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to >>

Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienist who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous. The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.

Mencken, H. L.