Facebook share Tweet This Email this
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.
- H. L. Mencken
Related topics: Funny Cynical Romantic Love
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person
to reconcile himself to the idea that
after all God will not help him
- H. L. Mencken
Marriage is a wonderful institution,
but who would want to live in an institution?
- H. L. Mencken
Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.
- H. L. Mencken
Please sign up for my Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote email using the form below.
Thank You,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken
I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie.
I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave.
And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.
- H.L. Mencken
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
- H. L. Mencken
The urge to save humanity is almost always
a false front for the urge to rule.
- H. L. Mencken
Criticism is prejudice made plausible.
- H. L. Mencken
For centuries, theologians have been explaining
the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.
- H. L. Mencken
The objection to Puritans is not that
they try to make us think as they do,
but that they try to make us do as they think.
- H. L. Mencken
Morality is the theory that every human act
must be either right or wrong,
and that 99 % of them are wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband
a month before she marries him
and what she thinks of him a year afterward,
and you will have the truth about him.
- H. L. Mencken
The worst government is often 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.
- H. L. Mencken
The believing mind is eternally impervious to evidence.
- H. L. Mencken
Puritanism. The haunting fear that
someone, somewhere, may be happy.
- H. L. Mencken
Life is a constant oscillation
between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
- H. L. Mencken
For every complex problem,
there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H.L. Mencken
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.
- H. L. Mencken
A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers,
looks around for a coffin.
- H. L. Mencken
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief
in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
- H. L. Mencken
Happiness is the china shop; love is the bull.
- H. L. Mencken
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed
(and hence clamorous to be led to safety)
by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins,
all of them imaginary.
- H. L. Mencken
Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino
We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone.
Only through our love and friendship can we
create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
- Orson Welles
Can miles truly separate us from friends?
If we want to be with someone we love, aren't we already there?
- Richard Bach
Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin
Sometimes new love comes between old friends.
Sometimes the best love was the one that was always there.
- Anonymous
Love is granting another the space to be
the way they are and the way they are not.
- Werner Erhard
Love is the absence of judgment.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
Your love is more powerful
than your words or your actions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Lord, grant that I might not so much
seek to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi
Love does not claim possession, but gives freedom.
- Rabindranath Tagore
If you love something, set it free;
if it comes back it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach
Love one another but make not a bond of love.
Let it rather be a moving sea
between the shores of your souls.
- Khalil Gibran
However rare true love may be,
it is less so than true friendship.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Your task is not to seek for love,
but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself
that you have built against it.
- A Course In Miracles (commonly misattributed to Rumi)
The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love does not alter the beloved, it alters itself.
- Soren Kierkegaard
I have found the paradox,
that if you love until it hurts,
there can be no more hurt, only more love.
- Mother Teresa
Love is stronger than justice.
- Sting
We can do no great things,
only small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa
May we so love as never to have occasion
to repent of our love!
- Henry David Thoreau
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
Some people come into our lives and quickly go.
Some people stay for awhile,
and move our souls to dance.
They awaken us to a new understanding,
leave footprints on our hearts,
and we are never, ever the same.
- Flavia Weedn
Do what you love.
Know your own bone;
gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it,
and gnaw it still.
- Henry David Thoreau
You know that you have fully experienced love
when you turn into love -
that is the spiritual goal of life.
- Deepak Chopra
Love one another.
- Jesus of Nazareth
Love is an act of faith.
- Erich Fromm
I love you because I love you.
You are a part of me, and
I need no reasons to love you.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The hunger for love is
much more difficult to remove
than the hunger for bread.
- Mother Teresa
There is no love without forgiveness,
and there is no forgiveness without love.
- Bryant H. McGill
Love is like the truth,
sometimes it prevails,
sometimes it hurts.
- Victor M. Garcia Jr.
There is no substitute for the comfort supplied
by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.
- Iris Murdoch
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)
Love Without Limits.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Love is serene and calm
- Erica Jong
Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
- Mother Teresa
Ignorance and bungling with love
are better than wisdom and skill without.
- Henry David Thoreau
Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it.
Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it.
Hatred darkens life; love illumines it.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Love: if you have to ask,
it's not the real thing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We live in the world when we love it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Most of us love, to be sure.
Yet far too often our love is passive.
We must be proactive in our love
in order for it to change our lives.
- Marianne Williamson
Mother's love grows by giving.
- Charles Lamb
Some people move our souls to dance.
- Flavia Weedn
Hate destroys, Love builds.
Hate tears down, Love renews and creates.
Hatred holds no hope for the future.
Love creates Today as its own better future.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thank you for visiting: Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another. ... by H. L. Mencken.
Please sign up on the form below to receive
my Free Daily Inspiration - Daily Quotes email.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"The Philosopher of Happiness" - is the author of 100 Secrets for Living a Life You Love, co-author of Simply An Inspired Life, speaker, personal coach, and creator of the popular Daily Inspiration - Daily Quote free email.>
All materials & writings are copyright © Jonathan Lockwood Huie, except for quotes and other specifically identified material which belong to their respective copyright holders if applicable.