Quotes by Mencken, H. L.

The most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and dis >>

Adultery is the application of democracy to love. >>

Opera in English, is about as sensible as baseball in Italian. >>

Quotations about Teachers and Teaching

Those who go to college and never get out are called professors. >>

He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. >>

Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and th >>

The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

Mencken, H. L.