Maxioms by Henry Louis Mencken
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into read more
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into read more
A man always blames the woman who fools him. In the same way he blames the door he walks into in the dark.
If you want peace, work for justice.
If you want peace, work for justice.
There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man read more
There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness
Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it
Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it
