H. L. Mencken

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect read more

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she read more

Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him. -H.L. Mencken.

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely read more

To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the read more

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.