Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
From H. L. Mencken
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates.
In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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