Maxioms by Henry Louis Mencken
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics read more
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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,
