Maxioms by Henry Louis Mencken
I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in read more
I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another
Misogynist: A man who hates women as much as women hate one another
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice
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,
