This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken
The true function of art is to criticize, embellish and edit nature? the artist is a sort of impassioned proof-reader, blue penciling the bad spelling of God.
Men in plural? can experience meaningfulness only because they can talk with and make sense to each other and themselves.
Sometimes it is better to give your apple away, than to eat it yourself.
Much smoke, and little roast.
Life | Life | Television | World | Understand |
Take heed of enemies reconciled and of meat twice boiled.
Power | Revolution | Will | World |
No one perceives where the shoe pinches but he who wears it.
Efficiency | Knowledge | Money | World |