A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

Quote by H L Mencken

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Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no...

Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no...

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

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

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

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born...

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born...

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

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

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably...

A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably...

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

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

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which...

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which...

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

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

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what sting is justice.

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open...

In the duel of sex woman fights from a dreadnought and man from an open...

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very...

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very...

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

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

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.

Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.