Quote #52
Truth - Something somehow discreditable to someone.
More from H. L. Mencken
- Self-respect - The secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
- We are here and it is now: further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.
- Remorse - Regret that one waited so long to do it.
- Historian - An unsuccessful novelist.
- Platitude - An idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
- Christian - One who is willing to serve three Gods, but draws the line at one wife.
- A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
- The New Deal began, like the Salvation Army, by promising to save humanity. It ended, again like the Salvation Army, by running flop-houses…