H. L. Mencken quotes
"If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be ineligible for any office of trust in the United States."
"The only really happy folk are married women and single men."
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard."
"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
"A poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child."
"A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents."
"The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind."
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
"Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again."
"Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses."
