H. L. Mencken Quote

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Save your golden days as time goes byBefore golden years expire

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

Grandchildren are their grandparents' toys.

Rich people do not work for money, they devote themselves to the work they love and do not wait for a well-deserved rest or retirement, but keep working passionately until the end of their lives

People who refuse to rest honorably on their laurels when they reach retirement age seem very admirable to me.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

Is not that government both unjust and ungrateful, that is so prodigal of it's favors to those called gentlemen, or goldsmiths, or such others who are idle, or live either by flattery or by contriving...