More From H. L. Mencken
- "The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God’s children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil."
- "Historian: an unsuccessful novelist."
- "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 Love
- "Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world."― Thomas Carlyle
- "Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh."― W. H. Auden
- "A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person."― Mignon McLaughlin