Criticism is prejudice made plausible. H. L. Mencken
There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong. H. L. Mencken
Judges ought to be more leaned than witty, more reverent than plausible, and more advised than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue. Francis Bacon
Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible. Francis Bacon
A joke is not a thing but a process, a trick you play on the listener's mind. You start him off toward a plausible goal, and then by a sudden twist you land him nowhere at all or just where he didn't expect to go. Max Eastman
