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,

Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a read more

Going to school does not make a person educated, any more than going to a garage makes a person a car

You can't kiss an oil well.

You can't kiss an oil well.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in read more

I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.