Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice.
H. L. MenckenWhen I hear artists or authors making fun of businessmen, I think of a regiment in which the band makes fun of the cooks.
H. L. MenckenAs long as the Southern colleges have revivals on their campuses and students get converted to Methodism and join the YMCA and are accepted as gentlemen, it will be impossible to think of the South as civilized...The educated folk of the Old South took theology lightly, and religion to them was hardly more than a charming ritual, useful on solemn occassions.
H. L. MenckenThe net effect of Clarence Darrow's great speech yesterday seemed to be precisely the same as if he had bawled it up a rainspout in the interior of Afghanistan.
H. L. Mencken