Quotes of H. L. Mencken

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The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians — and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

- H. L. Mencken

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“ Love is a panacea for a wound that never stops weeping. ”

- Kilroy J. Oldster

“ Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ We will either find a way, or make one. ”

- Hannibal

“ In case you never get a second chance: don't be afraid!" "And what if you do get a second chance?" "You take it! ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ And out of Tristan's heart there grew a hazel tree, and out of Iseult's a honeysuckle, and they arched together and clung and intertwined so that they could never be separated anymore. ”

- Rosemary Sutcliff

“ Life is a sheet of blank papers and pen: “We write our life like one made in heaven.” Sadly though, some don’t have the pen with them: “It’s others doing the writing for them. ”

- Rodolfo Martin Vitangcol

“ We would frequently be ashamed of our good deeds if people saw all of the motives that produced them. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ Anything that makes weak physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison. ”

- Swami Vivekananda

“ Life is an abstract art, and it’s up to you to make sense of it. ”

- Talismanist Giebra

“ Drunk and alone and hopelessly in love with the idea that someday somehow it might just get better. ”

- Stefanie Sybens

“ The pillow looked astonished, wondering what ended the late night river that used to run through it, but only he knows that she is the reason ”

- Ismaaciil C. Ubax

“ At one time or another we are all called to leave the safety of our homes, the certainty of what we know, the illusions of who we are. Not everyone will heed this call, of course. And those who do will risk losing themselves completely. But if we choose to ignore the invitation, we risk never knowing who we might have become. We risk dying without knowing what it is to live. ”

- Thomas Lloyd Qualls

“ If you don't run your own life, somebody else will. ”

- John Atkinson

“ Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people. ”

- Jhumpa Lahiri

“ The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart. ”

- Amit Ray

“ To pay gratitude, sign of generosity. ”

- Shekhar Srivastava

“ How do I say “I miss you” in a way that will make your heart ache as mine does? ”

- Unknown

“ Keep your face always toward the sunshine and shadows will fall behind you. ”

- Walt Whitman

“ Confidence is how we perceive the manifestation of truth in us. ”

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Love is the beauty of the soul. ”

- Augustine of Hippo

“ Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened. ”

- Dr. Seuss

“ Sometimes what seems so right turns out wrong and what seems so wrong turns out right. What do I call this phenomenon? Life. ”

- Charles F. Glassman

“ When people think they know you and put you in a box, keep growing and give them the box. ”

- Jackie Griffin

“ My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. ”

- Abraham Lincoln

“ I’ll hold you in my heart, till I can hold you in my arms. ”

- Unknown