Quote #2913
The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it...
Category Archives: H. L. Mencken
Quote #2922
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a...
Quote #2948
Sunday: A day given over by Americans to wishing they were dead and in...
Quote #2959
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Quote #2983
Men are the only animals that devote themselves, day in and day out, to...
Quote #2993
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another
Quote #2873
The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a...
Quote #2900
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God...
Quote #2902
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you...
Quote #2833
I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.