More quotes by H.L. Mencken

"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it."
"The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens."
"If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder."