Author of quotes: Henry Louis Mencken

In this world people appreciate not a right but a privilege.

Charity and patriotism are the main qualities of the American, which you want to sell something.

Most of all I hate what most envy.

Worst in marriage that it makes a woman believe that all men are also easily fooled.

Want to keep your husband - make him a little jealous of you, want to lose it - make sure that he was jealous of you a little more.

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
The whole aim of practical politics is to maintain the alarmed status of the population (the loud calling to lead him to safety) by intimidation of the population by the endless succession Babayev, all of these are imaginary.

Injustice is relatively easy to transfer; that hurts us really is justice.

Every normal man sometimes want to spit on his hands, raise the flag and go to cutting each other's throats.

There is nothing more absurd than the axiom that the way to a man's heart leads through his stomach. Tastes ordinary men before the primitive that he doesn't know good food from bad. The true way to his heart is through his throat. If women really knew their women, they would long ago have abandoned cooking and engaged in the brewing, the distilling and bottling of alcoholic beverages.

Hell is the place where the ten commandments are punishable by law.

The older I get the more I don't trust the well-known phrase that says that wisdom comes with age.

If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
If we assume that man is the likeness of God, then we are forced to believe in the theory that God is a coward, an idiot, a pervert.

When I die I shall be content to vanish into nothingness. No show, however good, could conceivably be good forever. I do not believe in immortality and have no desire for it.
When I die, I'd rather disappear into oblivion. No show, no matter how good it may be, cannot be good forever. I don't believe in immortality, and have no desire.

Bachelors know women better than married; otherwise, they'd get married, too.