Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1736 |
| AUTHOR: | Henry Louis Mencken (1880–1956) |
| QUOTATION: | There is always an easy solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | This essay was originally published in the New York Evening Mail, November 16, 1917, and reprinted in Prejudices: Second Series (1920). |
| SUBJECTS: | Solution |