Quotes of Henry Louis Mencken

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If we assume that man actually does resemble God, then we are forced into the impossible theory that God is a coward, an idiot and a bounder.

- Henry Louis Mencken

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“ 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

“ A blooming relationship even if it’s someone else’s, makes me so happy and reinstates my faith in love... ”

- Nitya Prakash

“ The love we say we feel for another is, in most cases, just a selfish hunt for our own happiness. ”

- Tatjana Ostojic

“ Every second that passes is another grain of sand in your hourglass that is gone, forever lost in time. ”

- Nyki Mack

“ Love is an endless mystery, because there is no reasonable cause that could explain it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses. ”

- C. JoyBell C.

“ A good idea always attracts other good ideas. ”

- Patrick Ness

“ I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet. ”

- Mahatma Gandhi

“ Don't be afraid of the shadows, that only means there's a light nearby. ”

- Evanescence

“ 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

“ Mistakes are not bad; excuses are. ”

- Udai Yadla

“ Mythology is not a lie, mythology is poetry, it is metaphorical. It has been well said that mythology is the penultimate truthpenultimate because the ultimate cannot be put into words. It is beyond words. Beyond images, beyond that bounding rim of the Buddhist Wheel of Becoming. Mythology pitches the mind beyond that rim, to what can be known but not told. ”

- Joseph Campbell

“ All for one and one for all. ”

- Alexandre Dumas

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

- Mike Stagnitta

“ Fear lies. Save love. ”

- Arif Naseem

“ There are many Mondays to go before I die. I may as well look forward to them. ”

- Trevor Carss

“ 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

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

- William Shakespeare

“ Repetition is the mother of skill. (might be someone else who wrote it). ”

- Anthony Robbins

“ At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet. ”

- Plato

“ And during, I realized that the labels didn’t matter, because when two people feel that sort of pull toward each other, it just works, and the only label that mattered was that I was in love. Totally, fully, ecstatically. ”

- Bill Konigsberg

“ Love thy neighbor — and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. ”

- Mae West

“ I do not write feelings, emotions I do not write after that day, about love anything I do not write my silence scream somewhere inside me there are my bloody wounds on paper words I do not write ”

- Mohammed Zaki Ansari

“ I find it odd the greed of mankind. People only like you for as long as they perceive they can get what they want from you. Or for as long as they perceive you are who they want you to be. But I like people for all of their changing surprises, the thoughts in their heads, the warmth that changes to cold and the cold that changes to warmth... for being human. The rawness of being human delights me. ”

- C. JoyBell C.