Maxioms by H. L. Mencken
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
Demagogue: one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.
