Henry Louis Mencken

You can't kiss an oil well.

You can't kiss an oil well.

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into read more

A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.

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

Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents

Sunday School: A prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man read more

There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness