One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
From H. L. Mencken
Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse.
No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.
Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.
The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
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