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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

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

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

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.

One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent.

I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.

Life is a dead-end street.

A great literature is chiefly the product of inquiring minds in revolt against the immovable certainties of the nation.

Love: the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. -H. L. Mencken.

To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia--to mistake an ordinary young man for a Greek god or an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

The truth that survives is simply the lie that is pleasantest to believe.

It is hard to tell if a man is telling the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place.

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

If I ever marry, it will be on a sudden impulse - as a man shoots himself.

No married man is genuinely happy if he has to drink worse whisky than he used to drink when he was single.

On one issue, at least, men and women agree; they both distrust women.