Maxioms by Henry Louis Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
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.
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
