Maxioms by Henry Louis Mencken
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,
Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better read more
Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup
If you want peace, work for justice.
If you want peace, work for justice.
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.
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the read more
I believe that all government is evil, in that all government must necessarily make war on liberty, and that the democratic government is at least as bad as any of the other forms
