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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Eppur si muove
BALTIMORE NATIONAL HERITAGE AREA PRESS RELEASE: A NEW CHAPTER FOR H.L. MENCKEN HOUSE Heritage Area Takes on House Restoration, Opening to Public as Museum Celebrating Life of the “Sage of Baltimore” [Contact: Jeffrey Buchheit 410-878-6411 • jbuchheit@baltimoreheritagearea.org] September 12, 2018 (Baltimore) — The Baltimore National Heritage Area (BNHA) today entered into a lease agreement with…
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Mencken Day, September 15, 2018
Mencken Day, September 15, 2018, is once again celebrated at France Hall, Maryland Historical Society, 201 West Monument Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21201. The Day’s Events 10:30 AM/France Hall: Annual Meeting of the Mencken Society Speaker: Dr Stacy Spaulding, Assistant Professor, Towson University: “The Intellectual Eater: H. L. Mencken’s Regional Food Editorials” 2:00 PM/France Hall: —…
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Mr Mencken Takes A Vacation
From the Free Lance of April 11, 1914: “Rising to a question of personal privilege, I announce my withdrawal from these cloistered shades for a brief space. No; I am not ill. No; I am not worn out by overwork. No; I have not been fired. No; I have not got a better job in…
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The Free Lance 849, April 11, 1914
The Free Lance, April 11, 1914.
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The Free Lance 848, April 10, 1914
The Free Lance, April 10, 1914.
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