Of Schubert I hesitate to speak. The fellow was scarcely human. His merest belch was as lovely as the song of the sirens. He sweated beauty as naturally as a Christian sweats hate.
Henry Louis Mencken Quotes
Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
It is impossible to believe that the same God who permitted His own son to die a bachelor regards celibacy as an actual sin.
Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.
Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn’t, they’d be married too.
The average man doesn’t want to be free. He wants to be safe.
The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of cliches.
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world.
Archbishop: A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.
