H. L. Mencken

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry…

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he…

Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend…

The only really happy folk are married women and single men…

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under…

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I…

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know…

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body…

The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral…

Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age…

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense…

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and…

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity…

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar…

Husbands never become good they merely become proficient…