Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
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Men are sad because they have to die so soon, women are sad because they were born so long ago.
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A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them.
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I give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.
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It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
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The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God`s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
