Maxioms by Henry Louis Mencken
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they read more
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master
Socialism: nothing more than the theory that the slave is always more virtuous than his master
Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame read more
Belief in our mortality, the sense that we are eventually going to crack up and be extinguished like the flame of a candle, I say, is a gloriously fine thing. It makes us sober; it makes us a little sad; and many of us it makes poetic. But above all,
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
