The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.
H. L. MenckenThe way for newspapers to meet the competition of radio and television is simply to get out better papers.
H. L. MenckenYou can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth.
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. Mencken