Women decide the larger questions of life correctly and quickly, not because they are lucky guessers, not because they are divinely inspired, not because they practise a magic inherited from savagery, but simply and solely because they have sense. They see at a glance what most men could not see with searchlights and telescopes.... They are the supreme realists of the race.
H. L. MenckenOne of the things that makes a Negro unpleasant to white folk is the fact that he suffers from their injustice. He is thus a standing rebuke to them.
H. L. MenckenWhenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
H. L. MenckenEveryman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one.
H. L. Mencken