H. L. Mencken
  • Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

  • No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

  • We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.

  • The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  • Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.