Maxioms by Henry Louis Mencken
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.
Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.
Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if read more
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
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,
