Women in general seem to me to be appreciably more intelligent than men. A great many of them suffer in silence from the imbecilities of their husbands.
H. L. MenckenIf x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y
H. L. MenckenI have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.
H. L. Mencken