"Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil." — H. L. Mencken

There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

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 or chemistry.