Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.
From H. L. Mencken
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office.
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.
The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.
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