Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.
Tag: H. L. Mencken
Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
Wife: a former sweetheart.
Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.
Wife: one who is sorry she did it, but would undoubtedly do it again.
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
The most common of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.