Quote #16440
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a...
Category Archives: H. L. Mencken
Quote #16456
The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the...
Quote #16425
A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child.
Quote #16441
Man is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate,...
Quote #16457
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is...
Quote #16426
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a...
Quote #16442
It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
Quote #16458
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings...
Quote #16411
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace in a continual...
Quote #16427
Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than...