Quote #72
Sunday - A day given over by Americans to wishing that they themselves were dead and in Heaven, and that their neighbors were dead and in Hell.
More from H. L. Mencken
- Creator - A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.
- A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
- Theology - An effort to explain the unknowable by putting it into terms of the not worth knowing.
- Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
- Q: If you find so much that is unworthy of reverence in the United States, then why do you live here? A: Why do men go to zoos?
- Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.
- We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful …