The only guarantee of the Bill of Rights which continues to have any force and effect is the one prohibiting quartering troops on citizens in time of peace. All the rest have been disposed of by judicial interpretation and legislative whittling.
H. L. MenckenIn the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
H. L. MenckenA dull, dark, depressing day in Winter: the whole world looks like a Methodist church at Wednesday night prayer meeting.
H. L. MenckenA man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
H. L. Mencken