An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
H. L. Mencken

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
H. L. Mencken

Time stays, we go.
H. L. Mencken

Every man is his own hell.
H. L. Mencken

Life is a dead-end street.
H. L. Mencken

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
H. L. Mencken

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken