War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.
From H. L. Mencken
The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.
The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe. Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.
God is a comedian, playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
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