Quotes by Mencken, H. L.

The average man does not get pleasure out of an idea because he thinks >>

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. >>

A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't >>

Quotations about Imagination

Pictures help you to form the mental mold... >>

If you close your eyes, you could just as well imagine me to be vintag >>

It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable >>

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. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

Mencken, H. L.