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

"There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor."

"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."

"One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable."

"Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."