Henry Louis Mencken

For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.

For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.

No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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

The only really happy folk are married women and single men.

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

- Henry Louis Mencken