Quotes of H. L. Mencken

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Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent-slimy, sneaking and abominable.

- H. L. Mencken

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“ Let us always meet each other with smile, for the smile is the beginning of love. ”

- Mother Teresa

“ The only time a man can do the right thing is right now. ”

- John Verdon

“ We don’t really care for things that we get easily in life. Life always needs to be served hot. ”

- Subhasis Das

“ The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience. ”

- Emily Dickinson

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

- Life

“ In the deepest hour of the night, confess to yourself that you would die if you were forbidden to write. And look deep into your heart where it spreads its roots, the answer, and ask yourself, must I write? ”

- Rainer Maria Rilke

“ If you want a future that makes you happy, if you want a world that you’re excited about, get your ass out there and earn it. ”

- Tom Bilyeu

“ A failure is always in the passenger seat in his or her life. ”

- Stephen Richards

“ It was like I’d met my life’s purpose. Like I’d been hurtling through the cosmos, blind, and without a destiny and he gave me one. He was fated to be the man who would break my heart at last. The heart I’d kept under scrutiny, sheltered, for this long, he tore through the heavy vaults and ripped it right out of my chest. From then on, there was no me, and no him. There was only us. ”

- Ellie Fox

“ Keep away from small people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Art is in the act, not the product. Products simply provide a means to continue the process, a loan of sorts from the buyer. Now the Art is in the hands of the buyer who transforms a simple act as a gift of time to the artist. I for one can not say which is more beautiful. ”

- Vic Stah Milien

“ I only have so much willpower, Helen," he whispered. "And since you apparently sleep in the most ridiculously transparent tank top I've ever seen, I'm going to have to ask you to get under the covers before I do something stupid. ”

- Josephine Angelini

“ When love comes like that, all you can do is surrender, to lay down your arms and submit to the will of those who would love you. For in denying it, you face only regret. ”

- Michael Kilman

“ Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ Fake it 'till you make it. ”

- Gayle Forman

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

- Dr. Seuss

“ We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ”

- Camille Paglia

“ I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now. ”

- Taylor Swift

“ Never make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option. ”

- Maya Angelou

“ Your dream should always be greater than your grievances ”

- Aadarsh Singh

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

- Ray Bradbury

“ Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice. ”

- Michael Novak

“ Be supportive of others the way you would want them to be supportive of you. ”

- Ken Poirot

“ The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink. ”

- T.S. Eliot

“ Every man is a boyfriend. But some people do not have the ability to become husbands. ”

- Sajal Ahmed