I've made it a rule never to drink by daylight and never to refuse a drink after dark.

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

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Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one...

Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its...

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its...

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence

Jealousy: The theory that some other fellow has just as little taste

Jealousy: The theory that some other fellow has just as little taste

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,...

Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to...

Every great wave of popular passion that rolls up on the prairies is dashed to...

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.

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another

Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party...

The military caste did not originate as a party of patriots, but as a party...

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production...

Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production...

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

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

Change is not progress

Change is not progress

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

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

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the...

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the...

The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist,...

The average newspaper, especially of the better sort, has the intelligence of a hillbilly evangelist,...

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world...

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world...

I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your...

I would have carved on the portals of the National Press Club, Put not your...

Just bought dinner for a homeless man. I've never felt more appreciation from a stranger...

Just bought dinner for a homeless man. I've never felt more appreciation from a stranger...

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next...

Look to your health; and if you have it, praise God, and value it next...