"A skeptic as to all ideas, including..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.”

“Unsuccessful candidates for the Presidency should be quietly hanged as a matter of public sanitation and decorum.”

“You come into the world with nothing, and the purpose of your life is to make something out of nothing.”

“Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway.”

“Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”

“When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person.”

“The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas is the gauntlet of the mob.”

“You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee IacoccaLove is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.”

“Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.”