like colour TV
is all there
in black and white❞
Monty Python

Quotes, Aphorisms, Laws, and Thoughts
Thirteen quotes by H.L. Mencken
❝A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.❞ [+]
❝An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.❞ [+]
❝It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.❞ [+]
❝It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.❞ [+]
❝Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.❞ [+]
❝Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?❞ [+]
❝Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.❞ [+]
❝Suicide is belated acquiescence in the opinion of one's wife's relatives.❞ [+]
❝The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.❞ [+]
❝The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.❞ [+]
❝There is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.❞ [+]
❝Truth would quickly cease to be stranger than fiction, once we got as used to it.❞ [+]
❝We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.❞ [+]
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