H. L. Mencken

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.