MENCKEN2

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The doctrine that the cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy is like saying that the cure of crime is more crime.

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.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth--that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one.

There's always an easy solution to every human problem--neat, plausible and wrong.

Those who can --do.
Those who can't -- teach.

Those who cannot teach -- administrate.

Well, in politics I'm a complete neutral. I think they're all scandals without exception.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.