If a politician found he had cannibals among his constituents, he would promise them missionaries for dinner.

Quote by H L Mencken

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

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

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that...

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that...

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never...

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never...

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.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from...

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from...

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of...

One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of...

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.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes...

An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes...

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good...

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good...

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

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

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

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia -...

To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia -...

Life is a dead-end street.

Life is a dead-end street.

Time stays, we go.

Time stays, we go.

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.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and...

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and...

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were...

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were...