The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse - that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to those who support it.

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

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

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

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and...

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and...

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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

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

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice

Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice

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

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

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable...

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable...

Change is not progress

Change is not progress

An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to...

An individual who forces himself to accept this or that idea, or who pretends to...

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

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

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that...

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that...

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator,...

Human life is basically a comedy. Even its tragedies often seem comic to the spectator,...

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...

The more a man dreams, the less he believes

The more a man dreams, the less he believes

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

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.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia,...

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia,...

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers...

The typical American of today has lost all the love of liberty, that his forefathers...

You being in my arms, heart by heart feels like our love would never end.

You being in my arms, heart by heart feels like our love would never end.

Love is stronger than violence.

Love is stronger than violence.

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The...

Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love. [The...