Quote #53
We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
More from H. L. Mencken
- Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.
- Historian - An unsuccessful novelist.
- Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
- Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.
- Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.
- The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses…
- Platitude - An idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.