The Mencken Society
Promoting the living works of Henry Louis Mencken, the "Sage of Baltimore"
- A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn’t know.
- Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
- Every man is his own hell.
- Historian – An unsuccessful novelist.
- Misogynist – A man who hates women as much as women hate one another.
- Optimist – The sort of man who marries his sister’s best friend.
- Puritanism – The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- The kind of man who demands that government enforce his ideas is always the kind whose ideas are idiotic.
- The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.
- The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army began, by running flop-houses and disturbing the peace.
- Wealth – Any income that is at least $100 more a year than the income of one’s wife’s sister’s husband.
Promoting the living works of Henry Louis Mencken, the "Sage of Baltimore"
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Der Tag 2024
September 14, 2024 (Saturday) Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathederal St 10:30 AM Annual Meeting of The Mencken Society. Speakers: Fred Hobson by way of remote conferencing and a discussion between John Barr, professor of history at Lone Star College, and Darryl Hart. 2:00 PM The 2024 Mencken Memorial Lecture will be presented by Thomas…
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The Free Lance 56, July 12, 1911
The Free Lance, July 12, 1911.
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The Free Lance 55, July 11, 1911
The Free Lance, July 11, 1911.
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The Free Lance 54, July 10, 1911
The Free Lance, July 10, 1911.
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Der Tag (aka Mencken Day), 2015-09-12
Mencken Day 2015 falls on September 12, the date of Mr Mencken’s birth and will celebrated, as usual, at the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral St, Baltimore, MD. Mr Mencken (Chuck Charlberg) will be there. The Pratt Library’s Mencken Memorial speaker (afternoon) will be David Thaler. The Society’s Darryl Hart will speak (morning) on…
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On respecting the men who rule us
“Already, indeed, there is ample evidence that the American people have lost all respect for their lawmakers, and are fast losing all respect for their courts. It is common to account for this by saying that material success has made them lawless, that they grow in natural viciousness, but a brief inspection is sufficient to…
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