Quotes from H. L. Mencken

Friendship is a common belief in the same fallacies, mountebanks and hobgoblins.

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

Freedom of press is limited to those who own one.

There are two kinds of music; German music and bad music.

In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.

Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

The penalty for laughing in a courtroom is six months in jail; if it were not for this penalty, the jury would never hear the evidence.

When a husband's story is believed, he begins to suspect his wife.

The chief knowledge that's man on from reading books is the knowledge that very few of them are worth reading.