Science is unflinchingly deterministic, and it has begun to force its determinism into morals. On some shining tomorrow a psychoanalyst may be put into the box to prove that perjury is simply a compulsion neurosis, like beating time with the foot at a concert or counting the lampposts along the highway.
H. L. MenckenWhen you sympathize with a married woman you either make two enemies or gain one wife and one friend.
H. L. MenckenHe slept more than any other president, whether by day or by night. Nero fiddled, but Coolidge only snored.
H. L. MenckenThere comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.
H. L. Mencken