Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours.
H. L. MenckenThe way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.
H. L. MenckenThe most valuable of all human possessions, next to a superior and disdainful air, is the reputation of being well-to-do.
H. L. MenckenPeople constantly speak of 'the government' doing this or that, as they might speak of God doing it. But the government is really nothing but a group of men, and usually they are very inferior men. They may have some better man working for them, but they themselves are seldom worthy of any respect.
H. L. Mencken