Thursday, July 26, 2007

Mencken Quotes

If you haven't guessed already, I'll fess up now. I have a huge hard-on for old guys. Especially dead old guys. That being said, here are some snippets from one very venerable dude.

[image from Wikipedia]


-The truth that survives is the lie that it is pleasantest to believe.

-Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

-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.

-The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.

from lhup.edu.

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