"The cynics are right nine times out..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“The value the world sets upon motives is often grossly unjust and inaccurate.”

“I devoured hot-dogs in Baltimore 'way back in 1886, and they were then very far from newfangled...They contained precisely the same rubber, indigestible pseudo-sausages that millions of Americans now eat, and they leaked the same flabby, puerile mustard. Their single point of difference lay in the fact that their covers were honest German Wecke made of wheat-flour baked to crispiness, and not the soggy rolls prevailing today, of ground acorns, plaster-of-Paris, flecks of bath-sponge, and atmospheric air all compact.”

“What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?”

“If we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time.”

“What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.”

“We all joke about Congress but we can't improve on them. Have you noticed that no matter who we elect, he is just as bad as the one he replaces?”

“No man should be angry with what is true.”

“If you can recognize illusion as illusion, it dissolves. The recognition of illusion is also its ending. Its survival depends on your mistaking it for reality.”

“The water in the stream may have changed many times, but the reflection of the moon and the stars remains the same.”