Quotes of H. L. Mencken

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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.

- H. L. Mencken

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“ If life gives you lemons, make lemonade. ”

- Unknown

“ 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

“ There are no trips to your past that are free ”

- Michalopoulos Angelos

“ If you love something so much let it go. If it comes back it was meant to be; if it doesn't it never was ”

- Albert Schweitzer

“ Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence. ”

- Ovid

“ 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

“ It takes courage to be honest and to work, while others play, cheat, sponge like parasites or are idle. There is value in the work that you choose to do, and you are an innately valuable person. ”

- Zita Steele

“ Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn't happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones? ”

- Elizabeth Scott

“ Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. ”

- Thomas Jefferson

“ All worries are less with wine. ”

- Amit Kalantri

“ Writing is the knitting of the soul ”

- Khaled Talib

“ Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. ”

- Pablo Picasso

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. ”

- Socrates

“ You don't need a million dollars in the bank. You just have to have passion, hustle and drive ”

- Daymond John

“ I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ I wonder if you have noticed a rather rummy thing about it viz. that it is everywhere. You can't get away from it. Love, I mean. Wherever you go, there it is, buzzing along in every class of life. Quite remarkable. ”

- P. G. Wodehouse

“ Sometimes, change is what we need to retain our sanity. ”

- Life

“ Armed with positive thoughts, it becomes easier to focus on your goals, while the opposite also holds true. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor. ”

- H. L. Mencken

“ It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. ”

- Ray Bradbury

“ There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge. ”

- Banksy

“ I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ The purpose of life is not to be happy—but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you lived at all. ”

- Leo Rosten

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

- Swami Vivekananda

“ For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand. ”

- Stephen King