Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
From H. L. Mencken
We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.
I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
The chief contribution of Protestantism to human thought is its massive proof that God is a bore.
It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
Historian: an unsuccessful novelist.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.
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