The most disgusting cad in the world is the man wh — H. L. Mencken
The most disgusting cad in the world is the man who, on grounds of decorum and morality, avoids the game of love. He is one who puts his own ease and security above the most laudable of philanthropies.
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A good politician…is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar or a virtuous harlot.
For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong. A Mencken Chrestomathy
If experience teaches us anything at all, it teaches us this: that a good politician, under democracy, is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
A woman wishes to mother a man simply because she sees into his helplessness, his need of an amiable environment, his touching self-delusion.
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It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue. ‘The Leningrad Notebooks’ (c .1735–50) in T. Besterman (ed.) Voltaire’s Notebook (2nd ed., 1968) vol. 2, p. 455
Voltaire
Who has not the spirit of his age, Of his age has all the unhappiness. 12 Letter to Madame du Châtelet
Voltaire
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe
Voltaire
Who has not the spirit of his age, Of his age has all the unhappiness. 12 Letter to Madame du Châtelet
Voltaire
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.
Bertrand Russell
I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.
Marilyn Monroe