A mood of constructive criticism being upon me, I propose forthwith that the method of choosing legislators now prevailing in the United States be abandoned and that the method used in choosing juries be substituted. That is to say, I propose that the men who make our laws be chosen by chance and against will of all the rest of us, as now.
H. L. MenckenIn every woman's life there is one real and consuming love. But very few women guess which one it is.
H. L. MenckenHow little it takes to make life unbearable: a pebble in the shoe, a cockroach in the spaghetti, a woman's laugh.
H. L. MenckenThe notion that anything is gained by fixing a language in a groove is cherished only by pedants.
H. L. Mencken