(1880-1956) American Journalist, Satirist, Social Critic [Henry Louis Mencken at Amazon]
Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.
A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses.
It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics and chemistry.