More quotes by H.L. Mencken

"If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl."
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
"The trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians."
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it."