More quotes by H.L. Mencken

"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."
"The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable."
"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing."
"Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull."
"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."