The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
H. L. MenckenThe demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
H. L. MenckenMan is never honestly the fatalist, nor even the stoic. He fights his fate, often desperately. He is forever entering bold exceptions to the rulings of the bench of gods. This fighting, no doubt, makes for human progress, for it favors the strong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and intolerable world by creating a more lovely one of their own.
H. L. MenckenThe more I think you over, the more it comes home to me what an unmitigated Middle Victorian ass you are!
H. L. Mencken