Public opinion, in its raw state, gushes out in the immemorial form of the mob's fear. It is piped into central factories, and there it is flavored and colored, and put into cans.
H.L. MenckenMots clés snark then-and-now
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
H.L. MenckenMots clés humor
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
H.L. MenckenThe chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H.L. MenckenThe most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
H.L. MenckenThe older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.
H.L. MenckenConscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
H.L. MenckenIf we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.
H.L. MenckenOne horse-laugh is worth ten-thousand syllogisms.
H.L. MenckenQualsiasi persona normale di tanto in tanto prova la tentazione di sputarsi nelle mani, issare la bandiera nera e cominciare a tagliare le gole.
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