It is difficult to believe that even idiots ever succumbed to such transparent contradictions, to such gaudy processions of mere counter-words, to so vast and obvious a nonsensicalitysentence after sentence that has no apparent meaning at all--stuff quite as bad as the worst bosh of Warren Gamaliel Harding.
H. L. MenckenI give you Chicago. It is not London and Harvard. It is not Paris and buttermilk. It is American in every chitling and sparerib. It is alive from snout to tail.
H. L. MenckenMan's objection to love is that it dies hard: women's, that when it is dead it stays dead.
H. L. MenckenMorality is doing what is right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
H. L. Mencken