More From H. L. Mencken
- "The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated."
- "Each party steals so many articles of faith from the other, and the candidates spend so much time making each other’s speeches, that by the time election day is past there is nothing much to do save turn the sitting rascals out and let a new gang in."
- "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him."
More In Age
- "Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age."― Hosea Ballou
- "It is my art. I am better at it than I ever was. And I will do it as long as I can. When you reach a certain age you can slough off what is unnecessary and concentrate on what is. And why not?"― Arthur Miller
- "Traveling to Russia and Germany and being able to see the world at a young age was really cool for me, and I really liked that."― Mia Wasikowska