“Time stays, we go.”
H. L. Mencken Quotes
“Life is a dead-end street.”
“The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.”
“Criticism is prejudice made plausible.”
“Historian -- an unsuccessful novelist.”
“The cynics are right nine times out of ten.”
“No one hates his job so heartily as a farmer.”
“Honor is simply the morality of superior men.”
“We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.”
“The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.”
“As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.”
“Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.”
“Adultery is the application of democracy to love.”
“Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.”
“Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.”
“Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.”
“A judge is a law student who grades his own papers.”
“Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals.”
“Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.”
“Legend : a lie that has attained the dignity of age.”
“Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.”
“Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.”
“There is no record in history of a happy philosopher.”
“Most people want security in this world, not liberty.”
“Alimony -- the ransom that the happy pay to the devil.”
“The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.”
“It is hard for the ape to believe he descended from man.”
“Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.”
“What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.”
“In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.”