Quote #2651
Henry James would have been vastly improved as a novelist by a few whiffs...
Category Archives: H. L. Mencken
Quote #2683
The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater...
Quote #2685
No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to...
Quote #2719
Lawer: one who protects us against robbery by taking away the temptation.
Quote #2538
Every man is thoroughly happy twice in his life: just after he has met...
Quote #2550
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but...
Quote #2575
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is...
Quote #2584
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in...
Quote #2591
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Quote #2499
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he...