Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
From H. L. Mencken
All government, of course, is against liberty.
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.
No one in this world, so far as I know - and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me - has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
The only really happy folk are married women and single men.
Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
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