H. L. Mencken ( 10 of 103 )
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not read more
It is the fundamental theory of all the more recent American law...that the average citizen is half-witted, and hence not to be trusted to either his own devices or his own thoughts.
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for read more
To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
It doesn't take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant read more
The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] read more
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and hence clamorous to be led to safety] by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.
