Some boys go to college and eventually succeed in getting out. Others go to college and never succeed in getting out. The latter are called professors.
H. L. MenckenThe music critic, Huneber, could never quite make up his mind about a new symphony until he had seen the composer's mistress.
H. L. MenckenIt is the classic fallacy of our time that a moron run through a university and decorated with a Ph.D. will thereby cease to be a moron.
H. L. MenckenPastor: One employed by the wicked to prove to them by his example that virtue doesn't pay.
H. L. MenckenIt was morality that burned the books of the ancient sages, and morality that halted the free inquiry of the Golden Age and substituted for it the credulous imbecility of the Age of Faith. It was a fixed moral code and a fixed theology which robbed the human race of a thousand years by wasting them upon alchemy, heretic-burning , witchcraft and sacerdotalism.
H. L. Mencken