I never lecture not because I am shy or a bad speaker but simply because I detest the sort of peopl

I never lecture not because I am shy or a bad speaker but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

Author: H. L. Mencken

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Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.

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

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

Love is when two people know everything about each other and are still friends.

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

People don’t take trips, trips take people.