Quotes of Henry Louis Mencken

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The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

- Henry Louis Mencken

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“ Do the best, give the best and leave the rest to run after you! ”

- Garima Yonzon

“ My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ”

- Lucille Ball

“ We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ My sister will die over and over again for the rest of my life. Grief is forever. It doesn't go away; it becomes a part of you, step for step, breath for breath. I will never stop grieving Bailey because I will never stop loving her. That's just how it is. Grief and love are conjoined, you don't get one without the other. All I can do is love her, and love the world, emulate her by living with daring and spirit and joy. ”

- Jandy Nelson

“ I do love nothing in the world so well as you is not that strange? ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Looks like to me we all begin and end in the same place. Perhaps we could love each other a little bit more along the way. ”

- Clyde Lee Dennis

“ I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ Live a life of substance. The rest are mere fantasies. ”

- Pragnya Sahoo

“ Everyone's time is limited. What matters most is to focus on what matters most. ”

- Roy Bennett

“ Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you. ”

- Ranata Suzuki

“ Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them. ”

- Paul Hawken

“ Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose. ”

- Victor Frankl

“ We accept some black people, receive some white people, embrace some Asian people, and welcome some mixed people, but God commands us to love all people. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ Nothing can bring a real sense of security into the home except true love. ”

- Billy Graham

“ The path is paved with consistent, conscious mental and spiritual alertness and the gradual growth of goodness in our heart and clarity in our mind. We are awake. If we keep trying to understand, we will understand. If we keep telling ourselves that we are loved by Life and if we keep looking for evidence of that love, we will find it. ”

- Donna Goddard

“ Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good. ”

- P.C. Cast

“ I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it’s just too much. The current’s too strong. They’ve got to let go, drift apart. ”

- Kazuo Ishiguro

“ There is nothing higher than love, and nothing lower than ignorance. ”

- Matshona Dhliwayo

“ When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. ”

- Gandhi

“ It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever. ”

- John Bytheway

“ Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena. ”

- Suzanne Collins

“ Love is like a brick. You can build a house, or you can sink a dead body. ”

- Lady Gaga

“ Close your eyes, take your time and listen. ”

- Maxime Lagacé