Quotes by Mencken, H. L.

Time is the great equalizer in the field of morals. >>

A prohibitionist is the sort of man one couldn't care to drink with, e >>

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of >>

Quotations about School

Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you h >>

No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. >>

Minerva House was a finishing establishment for young ladies, where so >>

School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.

Mencken, H. L.