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The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

A judge is a law student who marks their own examination papers.

I never agree with Communists or any other kind of kept men.

Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

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.

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.

Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.

Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act even when it has worked.

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

Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

The more a man dreams, the less he believes.

It is a sin to believe in the evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

Fame: an embalmer trembling with stage fright.

Imagine the Creator as a low comedian, and at once the world becomes explicable.

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. -H. L. Mencken.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. thanks to Alan Bennett -H. L. Mencken.