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,
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
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
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they read more
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it
Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it