H. L. Mencken

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution…

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe…

For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together…

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the…

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy…

If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also…

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think…

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for…

War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums…

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public…

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence…

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins…

Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque…

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms…

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she…