The practical politician, as every connoisseur of ochlocracy knows, is not a man who seeks to inoculate the innumerable caravan of voters with new ideas; he is a man who seeks to search out and prick into energy the basic…

Quote by Henry Louis Mencken

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Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that...

Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that...

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...

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a...

Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a...

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

Old age ain't no place for sissies.

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the...

It is a peculiarity of the American mind that it regards any excursion into the...

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter...

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter...

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war...

I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war...

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty,...

Religion is fundamentally opposed to everything I hold in veneration - courage, clear thinking, honesty,...

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop

Love is like war; easy to begin but very hard to stop

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the...

That it should still be necessary, at this late stage in the senility of the...

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.

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice...

A sense of humor always withers in the presence of the messianic delusion, like justice...

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like

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

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

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...

Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they...

Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they...

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

Life in a box is better than no life at all ... I expect.

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box

When the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient...

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient...