{"id":3805,"date":"2013-01-09T11:27:20","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T16:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3805"},"modified":"2013-11-24T19:21:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-25T00:21:38","slug":"a-dozen-gems-from-hl-mencken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3805","title":{"rendered":"A Dozen Gems from HL Mencken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an American satirist \u2013 one of the cleverest American writers of the early 1900\u2019s. Here are a dozen of his bons mots:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.<\/li>\n<li>For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.<\/li>\n<li>The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.<\/li>\n<li>A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.<\/li>\n<li>Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.<\/li>\n<li>A man may be a fool and not know it &#8212; but not if he is married.<\/li>\n<li>Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.<\/li>\n<li>Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.<\/li>\n<li>Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.<\/li>\n<li>A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground.<\/li>\n<li>Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia\u2019s entry on <a title=\"H.L. Mencken\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/H._L._Mencken\" target=\"_blank\">H.L. Mencken<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More quotes can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.quotationspage.com\/quotes\/H._L._Mencken\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an American satirist \u2013 one of the cleverest American writers of the early 1900\u2019s. Here are a dozen of his bons mots: The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it. For every complex problem, there&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3805"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4669,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3805\/revisions\/4669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}