H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

Better | Friend |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.

Woman |

H. L. Mencken, fully Henry Louis Mencken

The older I get the more I admire and crave competence, just simple competence, in any field from adultery to zoology.

Italian Proverbs

One fool is enough in a house.

Character | Suppression | Intellect |

Italian Proverbs

Poverty wants many things, and avarice all.

Business | Government | Right | Wealth | Government | Business |

Italian Proverbs

The heart does not think all the mouth says.

Italian Proverbs

The ass does not know the worth of this tail till he has lost it.

Books | Character | Effort | Hope | Judgment | Will | Work | Realism |

Italian Proverbs

Old friends are always new.

Books | Character |

Italian Proverbs

Where there are too many cooks the soup will be too salty.

Italian Proverbs

War begun, hell unchained.

Character | Display | Will |

Italian Proverbs

The world wags on with three things: doing, undoing, and pretending.

Ability | Adventure | Character | Comfort | Convictions | Daring | Ideas | Injustice | Injustice | Love | Man | Men | Qualities | Sound | Suffering | Talking | Time | Universe | Will | Witness | Blessed | Old | Winning |

Italian Proverbs

Two dogs fight for a bone and a third runs away with it.

Character | Majority |

Italian Proverbs

True love never grows old.

Character | Good |

Italian Proverbs

Where there is great love there is great pain.

Good | People | Right |

Italian Proverbs

When the devil is old he turns hermit.

Character | Effort |

Italian Proverbs

When the wine is in, the wit is out.

Character | Consistency |

Italian Proverbs

The priest's friend loses his faith, the doctor's his health, and the lawyer's his fortune.

Italian Proverbs

When your devil was born, mine was going to school.

Character | Truth |

Italian Proverbs

The tongue goes to where the tooth aches.

Model | Office | Space | Thinking | Old |

J. R. R. Tolkien, fully John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Ask not the elves for advice, because they will tell you both 'yes' and 'no'.

Credit |