Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Men have a much better time of it than women: for one thing they marry later, for another thing they die earlier.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Opera in English is, in the main, about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Sin is a dangerous toy in the hands of the virtuous. It should be left to the congenitally sinful, who know when to play with it and when to let it alone.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule--and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
