H.L.Mencken Quotes

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[Squantos]

You need to get togeather with Xenalyte.......very pretty Texan skilled with a sword ...:o)... Not sure of her H.L. Mencken views though...........

Ya'll Stay Safe !

[Xenalyte]

Skilled in blade and quarterstaff, and as sweetly cynical as only a born-and-bred Texas broad can be!

[Travis McGee]

bttt

[Grut]

My glass is half full . . .

" There are, it has been said,two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass which is exactly half full. say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty."
" The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?"

---Terry Pratchett

[Grut]

My glass is half full . . .

" There are, it has been said, two types of people in the world. There are those who, when presented with a glass which is exactly half full, say: this glass is half full. And then there are those who say: this glass is half empty."
" The world belongs, however, to those who can look at the glass and say: What's up with this glass? Excuse me? Excuse me? This is my glass? I don't think so. My glass was full! And it was a bigger glass! Who's been pinching my beer?"

---Terry Pratchett

[harpseal]

I have long enjoyed H. l. Mencken but a few of his quotes originated with others but they are still pithy and for the most part true.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[BMCDA]

Ah! Mencken quotes - I simply love 'em.
Nice to see them posted here on FR.

Regards

[BMCDA]

I agree, however, the things that Mencken doesn't get right may cost him an eternity.

And maybe he didn't want such an 'eternity' (and neither do I).

[BMCDA]

Exactly!

[BluesDuke]

I have been a Mencken fan since college years, when I stumbled on a copy of the original Chrestomathy. My library once included original editions of Prejudices: First Series, A Book of Prefaces, The Bathtub Hoax and Other Blasts and Bravos, A Carnival of Buncombe, The Days of H.L. Mencken, and Minority Report; those books were lost with only too many others of mine in flood damage four years ago. I now have a fresh copy of the first Chrestomathy, A Second Mencken Chrestomathy, The Impossible H.L. Mencken (a fat volume of his newspaper writings, including the pieces covering the Scopes trial which Mencken more famously whittled into his notorious elegy for William Jennings Bryan), Prejudices: A Selection, and H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism. I hunt the used bookstores regularly in search of the older volumes I lost, too.

As for seeing writing of the like of Mr. Mencken in the newspapers today, rotsa ruck. Had he been starting his career today, Mencken would be dismissed as too opaquely impossible by editors who can barely parse Fun with Dick and Jane (the same could likely be said of such as William F. Buckley, Jr., Murray Kempton - who actually served as Mencken's page during the 1936 national conventions - Jim Murray, Malcolm Muggeridge, and Red Smith, among others).

[Squantos]

Well it seem I have some book buying to conduct this weekend.......thanks for posting that list of text.

Stay Safe !

[pocat]

Wow! Some real gems there. My favorite:

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.