H. L. Mencken
  • The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  • Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

  • Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

  • Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

  • A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.