An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Quote by H L Mencken

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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

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

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

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.

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is...

A man may be a fool and not know it, but not if he is...

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience...

A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience...

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of...

It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of...

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the...

When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the...

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the...

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the...

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

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

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

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

He's playing you because you're the only one who doesn't know.

He's playing you because you're the only one who doesn't know.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence

The cruelest lies are often told in silence