During many a single week, I daresay, more money is spent in New York upon useless and evil things than would suffice to run the kingdom of Denmark for a year.

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

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Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first...

Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first...

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the...

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the...

No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by...

No one in this world, so far as I know has ever lost money by...

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach...

How little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach...

The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks...

The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks...

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief...

Save among politicians it is no longer necessary for any educated American to profess belief...

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents,...

They have taken the care and upbringing of children out of the hands of parents,...

There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no...

There are two kinds of books: those that no one reads and those that no...

Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit -...

Nothing is more patent, indeed, than the fact that charity merely converts the unfit -...

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really...

Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really...

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

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

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

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

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

The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable...

The fundamentalist mind, running in a single rut for fifty years, is now quite unable...

Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist

Living with a dog is messy - like living with an idealist

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

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

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient

Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both...

A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both...

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses...

There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses...

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our...

Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our...