More From H. L. Mencken
- "All government, of course, is against liberty."
- "Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience."
- "The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line."
More In Time
- "If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."― Benjamin Franklin
- "Most of the time I don’t have much fun. The rest of the time I don’t have any fun at all."― Woody Allen
- "We’re as clever as we think we are, but we’ll be a lot cleverer when we learn to use not just one brain but to pool huge numbers of brains. We’re at a level technologically where we can share information and think collectively about our problems. We do it in science all the time – there’s no reason why we can’t do it in other endeavors."― Lewis Thomas